The Language of Desire

In Hollywood, actors are, often arbitrarily, assigned a “type.” We see an actor in a certain role, and identify her with that role. The stronger the identification, the harder it is for us to accept her in different roles. Actors constantly struggle against “typecasting,” because once they’re seen as a certain “type,” they find it more difficult to be cast in roles that differ from this “type.” But typecasting doesn’t just happen in Hollywood. We also encounter typecasting in our family relationships.

Any professor who has been hurt and felt unfairly judged by student evaluations will find comfort in Oshry's description of this frequent classroom scenario. Oshry describes the teacher/student relationship as a potential, yet often unrealized, partnership in the learning process. It is a mistake, he says, to judge either student or teacher in isolation; what is key is the relationship, and the relationship is was needs to be evaluated.
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