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To kill a mokingbird remember a moment back in the mid-80s when I was a graduate teaching assistant. Several of my fellow grad students and I were standing around
to kill a mokingbird The story takes place during three years of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama. The narrator, six-year-old
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remember a moment back in the mid-80s when I was a graduate teaching assistant. Several of my fellow grad students and I were standing around a hall of the English department engaging in the usual t.a. banter: bemoaning the illiteracy of our composition students, fretting about our upcoming doctoral exams, debating the pros and cons of applying for food stamps. Out-of-the-blue one of our number remarked, "You know, teaching is a sexy business." I distinctly recall the embarrassed hush that fell over the group. Then someone changed the subject, back to comp students and food stamps.
Is teaching a "sexy business?" If so, what might be the dangers (and possibly also the advantages) of a buried Eros in the classroom? If some profs are, in fact, bedding their students (or vice versa), should this alarm anyone concerned about higher education? Although I'm a professor myself (blissfully married, I might add) let me throw caution to the wind and confess that I find these questions fascinating. Moreover, I consider them relevant to a broad range of important pedagogical and academic issues. Thus, I opened the essay collection, The Erotics of Instructions, with high hopes. The wry black and white photo on the cover--showing an innocently grinning female college student who looks straight out of Dobey Gillis, with bobbed hair and a class ring on her finger, a pair of textbooks clutched to her firmly brassiered bosom--certainly enhanced my optimism. However, though the anthology had its moments, I ultimately found it quite disappointing.
The biggest mistake made by many of the book's contributors (most of whom are professors) is their shared decision to focus primarily on how "the erotics of instruction" has been portrayed through the ages in literature and film, rather than turning to their own experiences, and those of their colleagues, in the classroom. True, this emphasis does reveal that the sexual side of teaching has been an extended...
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