Thanks, Phyllis. I can obtain the thesis through our library and will put in an order today. TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT Trevor J. Gambell (306) 966-7573 voice Professor and Graduate Chair (306) 966-7658 fax Department of Curriculum Studies University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W0 Canada [log in to unmask] GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG On Thu, 25 May 1995, Phyllis Artiss wrote: > Trevor, a couple of years ago a grad student here did her MEd thesis > on a topic that might interest you. She called it something like > _Collaborative Learning:A Social Hermeneutic_, but it was very much about > the process of negotiating the curriculum with students. She included a > case study of my third year course on Gender and Writing (and English Women's > Studies) and used Bakhtin,Phelps, Heath and I think Freire, Bartolomae and > so on for her theoretical framework. What might be particularly > useful are the transcribed interviews with students taking the course ( > she did lengthy interviews with all 25 students). Some are remarkably > articulate and frank, about the weakness of the course as well as its > strengths, and very diverse. Her name is Janice Adams, and (oh yes) the > institution is Memorial University. Her supervisor was Clar Doyle, whose > book _Raising the Curtains on Education: Drama as a Site for > Critical Pedagogy_ (Bergen and Garvey,1993) should also be of interest to > your group. > > Let me know if you have trouble getting the thesis. > Phyllis Artiss ([log in to unmask]) >