Enhancing the agency of the listener: Introducing reception theory in a lecture

Smyth, Karen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7101-2397 (2009) Enhancing the agency of the listener: Introducing reception theory in a lecture. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 33 (2). pp. 131-140. ISSN 0309-877X

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Abstract

This article explores a teaching approach that aims to engage learners more fully in the deep learning process that is characterised by the development of critical thinking skills. The concept of critical thinking skills is reconsidered in the context of the need to shift focus away from teaching teachers about learning to teaching students about learning. A cross‐disciplinary approach is used, with the educational theory of interactional learning being placed alongside the literary theory of reception study. The result of placing these hitherto unconnected theories side by side is to open up a debate concerning the rhetoric we use when discussing the value of learning, by introducing a new discourse concerning ‘dialogue strategies’. This case study of the potentials in using dialogue strategies during a lecture illustrates how students’ conceptual sophistication in cognitive thinking is achieved by asking them to scrutinise their own involvement in the learning experience.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature and Creative Writing (former - to 2011) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Medieval and Early Modern Research Group
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2010 13:58
Last Modified:	12 Sep 2023 13:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/10223
DOI:	10.1080/03098770902856660

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