ERIC Number: EJ1427470
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 11
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Peer Tutoring as "Identification": A Burkean Perspective
Joshua G. Clements
Journal of College Reading and Learning, v54 n2 p55-65 2024
This essay aims to continue a conversation initiated in the 1980s about the contrasting terms "peer" and "tutor." This essay begins with a brief history of the terms, and applies Kenneth Burke's concept of identification to peer tutoring to attempt to explain these contradicting terms. Burke's theory of identification exemplifies the collaborative nature of peer tutoring wherein the peer tutor acts as a rhetor constructing new meaning through interaction and conversation with the tutee. Ultimately, peer tutoring's, and arguably Burke's, purpose is to continue helping people collaborate, arrive at new understanding, and overcome differences.
Descriptors: Tutoring, Peer Teaching, Identification, Definitions, Peer Relationship, Reading Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Dialogs (Language)
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