INTERSECTION

• Published in: Writing With Elbow p. 127
• Main Author: Sheryl I. Fontaine
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Utah State University Press 01.04.2003
• Subjects: Academic learning; Applied psychology; Arts; Axiology; Basic writing; Behavioral sciences; Classroom activities; Communications; Education; Educational activities; Educational methods; Educational psychology; Educational testing; Educational tests; Ethics; Expressivism; Formal education; Humanities instruction; Language arts; Literary studies; Literary theory; Literature; Metaethics; Pedagogy; Philosophy; Psychology; Reader response theory; Social sciences; Student assignments; Teaching; Writing; Writing assignments; Writing instruction; Writing tests; Written communication
• ISBN: 9780874214307; 0874214300
• DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt46nxbc.17

Reading the essays in this section of our collection, I was inevitably drawn back to my own experiences in the classroom with Peter. The classroom I shared with him, when we were colleagues at SUNY Stony Brook, took the form of staff meeting rooms, high school classrooms, passenger sections on airplanes, hallways and cafeterias, the department mail room, and Peter’s own department office. I learned much during those three years about the same topics that our authors raise: putting teaching theory into practice; the grey, compelling corners of assessment; what can be gained and lost by disciplinary labels; just how