April 20, 2001
Course on Children's Literature at Western Michigan U. Will Produce Its Own Textbook
Large lecture courses evoke images of cavernous auditoriums half-full of disaffected students.
Then there's Gwen Athene Tarbox's 130-student lecture in children's literature at Western Michigan University. Gone are the anonymity, the disengagement, the dismal attendance.
When the assistant professor of English asks a question, some 50 hands shoot into the air, and she knows the names -- and career goals -- of the people they're attached to. On average, fewer than three students
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