01:355:201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Agonism, Signify

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: English Composition and Writing
• Course: 01:355:201
• Professor: Benjamin Fisher

Document Summary

Getting an education at a university can be a very special experience, because it can either happen inside or outside of a learning environment. However, the way students are taught inside a learning environment could affect the way they make decisions in other outside situations. A classroom is structured to make students debate rather than discuss. When they learn information and get an opinion, students will, Criticize, find fault, and attack (tannen, 2000, pg. When students use this strategy tannen calls agonism (pg. 2), they tear down other people"s viewpoints rather than complimenting and backing up their own. This approach is destructive rather than constructive , and falls short of the ability to actually learn something (burgess & burgess, 2003, n. p. ). We can include an outside environment by using a student athlete as an example. A student athlete learns both on and off the field.