The tutor asked the student a lot of questions about whether she felt that she had a place where she elaborated about a certain point. Even so, the tutor basically gave her what he thought her thesis should be and then asked her what her three main points should be. The tutor kept referring to the thesis as his and would make comments such as "That's what I want you to be able to see." The tutor took too much control over what the student's paper should be and he was trying to make the student agree with him, even though the she did not seem that enthusiastic about it. The tutor referring to the students paper in such a possessive way, allowing the student shut down and not think.
Woolbright finds this peer tutoring exchange very problematic because it does not follow a feminist pedagogy. There is no shared authority between the tutor and the student; the tutor is telling the student what to do. I think tutors do have some authority over students simply because tutors (hopefully) have been trained. However, there are ways for tutors to be direct without taking complete control and authority. This paper needs to happen and the student doesn't know what to do. The student needs to develop her argument on her own, so she will be confident in providing support for it. It's the tutors job to ask direct and open ended questions and guide the student so that she may find the answers herself.
Open ended questions:
-If you thought it was about manhood, why?
-What's the most important theme or issue that you found in this reading/ What major moments in the story jump out at you?
- Why did you pick the doctor?
- What do you think about the characters?
- How do the interactions of the characters differ from each scenario? What do these interactions reveal?
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