The Sound of Shackles Shaking: Toward Student-Centered Writing
By: Joan Martens
Publication:
The Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 1
Date: Winter 1994
Summary: Teacher Joan Martens wonders what it would take to shake the indifference of her students, who come with the attitude of victims—passive about an environment they feel unable to control and hardened to the plight of others. Her realization that her own imposition of writing agendas on her students was contributing to their apathy stirs her to make her class more student-centered and to take a deeper responsibility for what happens in our society and in her own life.
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