Ben Knights
Biographic Data
| ID | 5952933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Knights |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Knights |
| SIGNATURE | BEN KNIGHTS |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Outlaws and Misfits
The images of the writer as exile and outlaw were central to modernism's cultural positioning. As the Scrutiny circle's ‘literary criticism’ became the dominant way of reading in the University English departments and then in the grammar-schools, it took over these outsider images as models for the apprentice-critic. English pedagogy offered students not only an approach to texts, but an implicit identity and affective stance, which combined aler…
Pedagogic Criticism
This book argues that the history of English Studies is embedded in its classroom practice, and its practice in its history. Some of its foundational struggles are still being lived out today. English
Masculinities in dialogue
This response to the articles by Diana Wallace and Samantha Pinto seeks to locate the negotiation of gendered identities in the classroom within the larger study of the dialogic relations between texts, teachers, and students. Teaching, it proposes, is not a second-order derivative of scholarship, but a cultural form in its own right. The article suggests the continuing cultural and ethical importance of the study of masculinities within textual …
Masculinities in Text and Teaching
Intelligence and Interrogation
This article seeks to illuminate a crossover area between subject research and ‘scholarship of teaching’. It proposes that a strategic bridge between discipline as body of knowledge and discipline as pedagogy is the formation and socialization of the student through practices that are at once social, rhetorical, and intellectual. While acknowledging that many current formations are generic, and stem from extra-disciplinary priorities, the article…
Group processes in higher education
Subject specialists have been too dismissive of the experiential dimension of learning, and the advocates of experiential learning have had too little to say about knowledge. This article suggests a possible common ground. Academic subjects are reproduced within the systems of relations established in the classroom, and both students and in the widest sense learning suffer from the replication of taken-for-granted forms of dialogue and exclusion.…
Hearing Yourself Teach
Intelligence and Interrogation
This article seeks to illuminate a crossover area between subject research and ‘scholarship of teaching’. It proposes that a strategic bridge between discipline as body of knowledge and discipline as pedagogy is the formation and socialization of the student through practices that are at once social, rhetorical, and intellectual. While acknowledging that many current formations are generic, and stem from extra-disciplinary priorities, the article…
Hearing Yourself Teach
Hearing Yourself Teach
Group processes in higher education
Subject specialists have been too dismissive of the experiential dimension of learning, and the advocates of experiential learning have had too little to say about knowledge. This article suggests a possible common ground. Academic subjects are reproduced within the systems of relations established in the classroom, and both students and in the widest sense learning suffer from the replication of taken-for-granted forms of dialogue and exclusion.…
Intelligence and Interrogation
This article seeks to illuminate a crossover area between subject research and ‘scholarship of teaching’. It proposes that a strategic bridge between discipline as body of knowledge and discipline as pedagogy is the formation and socialization of the student through practices that are at once social, rhetorical, and intellectual. While acknowledging that many current formations are generic, and stem from extra-disciplinary priorities, the article…
Masculinities in Text and Teaching
Masculinities in dialogue
This response to the articles by Diana Wallace and Samantha Pinto seeks to locate the negotiation of gendered identities in the classroom within the larger study of the dialogic relations between texts, teachers, and students. Teaching, it proposes, is not a second-order derivative of scholarship, but a cultural form in its own right. The article suggests the continuing cultural and ethical importance of the study of masculinities within textual …
Pedagogic Criticism
This book argues that the history of English Studies is embedded in its classroom practice, and its practice in its history. Some of its foundational struggles are still being lived out today. English
Outlaws and Misfits
The images of the writer as exile and outlaw were central to modernism's cultural positioning. As the Scrutiny circle's ‘literary criticism’ became the dominant way of reading in the University English departments and then in the grammar-schools, it took over these outsider images as models for the apprentice-critic. English pedagogy offered students not only an approach to texts, but an implicit identity and affective stance, which combined aler…
Sociology (7 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)