Date of Award
Spring 2016
Document Type
Thesis
Terms of Use
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Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Educational Studies Department, English Literature Department
First Advisor
Diane Downer Anderson
Second Advisor
Craig Williamson
Abstract
This thesis explores how to teach literature in a way that relies on true internal cognition from students and values their unique responses and identities. This is accomplished through an analyzing the theme of power distribution in Tolkien's The Hobbit alongside the educational theories of Paulo Freire, Maren Aukerman, Louise M. Rosenblatt and Lawrence Sipe to present a more equitable distribution of power when teaching texts within a classroom. The literary analyses work with pedagogical analysis to outline four pedagogical principles that can be used to inform a potential unit on The Hobbit for a 6th grade Language Arts class.
Recommended Citation
Martinez, Joy Claire de Aguilar , '16, "What Dragons and Hobbits (and teachers) have in common; Or the evils of hoarding: How Tolkien's The Hobbit informs classroom practice" (2016). Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards. 456.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/theses/456