Daniel T. Lochman. "Play and Game: Implications For the Writing Center."
-Concept- Fun = not "intellectually rigorous"/serious and work worthy
-Writing Center as a place for "spontaneity and playfulness within the university"
-Theodore Roszak: play is infantile and uninhibited/ game is for adult favoring order
-Play's liberating influence can help students reach their potential
-Scholars to review: Johan Huizinga, Piaget, Richard Lanham, Ken Macrorie, Peter Elbow, Donald Murray, Thomas Nash
-Books/Events/Ideas providing context: Diane Ravitch's "The Death and Life of the Great American School System..." Denise Clark Pope's "Doing School..." No Child Left Behind (2000), Western's Duality/Individuality vs Interdependence
Steve Sherwood. "Humor and the Serious Tutor."
-"We must not disregard the role humor can play in facilitating interactive learning."
-Humor can "build a bridge between tutor and student, can distance students from their fears, soften any necessary criticism ... plant the seeds of flexibility and creativity ... [thus] free students to do their best work."
-Humor is bad for its derisive nature ( age old perception )
-"Many academics 'project a one-dimensional attitude which tells students that education, and life in general, is serious business...'"
-Scholars to review: John Moreall, Plato, Lex Runciman
-Ideas providing context: psychiatric term "Social Fears," Einstein's "Combinatory Play"
Daniel T. Lochman. "'A Dialogue of One': Orality and Literacy in the Writing Center"
-"Students are often unwilling to invest their own ideas, their own reactions and self-questioning in the act of writing because decisions regarding topics and form are customarily made by others- teachers, administrators, school boards."
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