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Murray, Beth; Salas, Spencer – English in Texas, 2014
Using Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" as an anchor text, the authors argue for applied theatre strategies as vivid and viable tools for exploring challenging texts and applying critical lenses in an embodied way. Readers are guided through a series of theatre-based, English-classroom accessible improvisational frameworks to help…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Teaching Methods, Novels, English Literature
Howley, Craig B. – Online Submission, 2006
This essay explains the relevance of critique in rural education to novels about rural places. The most important quoted passage in the essay is from the noted physicist Richard Feynman: "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Novelist-physicist C. P. Snow, historian Henry Adams, and poet and student-of-mathematics Kelly Cherry also…
Descriptors: Natural Sciences, Novels, Rural Education, Social Sciences