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I am very interested in how students are reacting to the Great Books experience. I have had excellent results asking them for what Elliot Eisner calls "expression outcomes". Eisner defines "expression outcomes": Essentially what one ends up with, intended or not, after some form of engagement. Expressive outcomes are the consequence of curriculum activities that are intentionally planned to provide a fertile field for personal purposes and experience.I have found that a Great Books Colloqui's is an incredibly rich field for "personal purposing and experience." I give my students the Eisner quotation and ask them to write a 5-10 page paper in which they reflect back on what they think is their most significant outcomes from having taken Great Books. I find these papers invariably stimulating and insightful. (P.S. I assign a certain number of points for having done this assignment; I do not give them a little grade) |