Norman N. Holland

Norman N. Holland

The Delphi Seminar: and more of that

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==The Delphi Seminar==
==The Delphi Seminar==
During the 1970s, Holland and his colleague at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Murray Schwartz, developed a style of reader-response teaching that they named the "Delphi Seminar."Holland, Norman N. and Murray Schwartz. "The Delphi Seminar." ''College English'' 36.7 (Mar., 1975): 789-800. The original seminar included students and instructors practicing free association responses to poems and stories and subsequent readings of other participants’ free associations as primary texts.
During the 1970s, Holland and his colleague at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Murray Schwartz, developed a style of reader-response teaching that they named the "Delphi Seminar."Holland, Norman N. and Murray Schwartz. "The Delphi Seminar." ''College English'' 36.7 (Mar., 1975): 789-800. The original seminar included students and instructors practicing free association responses to poems and stories and subsequent readings of other participants’ free associations as primary texts.{{cn}}


In 1995, Holland published a mystery novel based on the Delphi seminars entitled ''Death in a Delphi Seminar: A Postmodern Mystery''.Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995. The story takes place in an English department, and the reader is led through the text using reader-response theory to understand the characters and the crime.
In 1995, Holland published a mystery novel based on the Delphi seminars entitled ''Death in a Delphi Seminar: A Postmodern Mystery''. The story takes place in an English department, and the reader is led through the text using reader-response theory to understand the characters and the crime.{{cn}} ''Know Thyself: Delphi Seminars'' (2009)Gainesville, FL: PsyArt Foundation, 2008. by Holland and Schwartz provides an overview of the Delphi Seminar teaching style and lays out the seminar's findings.

''Know Thyself: Delphi Seminars'' (2009)Gainesville, FL: PsyArt Foundation, 2008. by Holland and Schwartz provides an overview of the Delphi Seminar teaching style and lays out the seminar's findings.


==Literature and cognitive science==
==Literature and cognitive science==