Abstract
[...]the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone on before. [...]the parlour is the place in one’s home where a good host helps visitors to feel comfortable so that good conversation, good teaching, and good learning can take place. Like the best social gatherings, the parlour-classroom must be about the students/guests, never about the instructor/host. [...]a model of learning and knowing, though it conforms with professional conventions, is likely to be different from the learning and writing practices learned and practised by most students, for whom research and research writing are likely to consist of (a) an assigned paper topic and/or (b) an understanding that the function of research is to locate and assemble “sources.”