Quest for Performative Pedagogy in Riva Palacio’s “The Good Example” and Anton Chekhov’s “Who was to Blame?”

Abstract

This article makes an attempt to explore the idea of performative pedagogy to develop the holistic and wholesome personality of the learners. Taking the case of two popular stories, the researcher argues that traditional pedagogy not only makes the learners lethargic and lousy but also kills their latent potentialities; therefore, modern education should be such which could bring in critical and creative insights within the learners’ faculty of mind, and this is possible only through full-fledged application of performative pedagogy— the one which highlights how to prepare students to think of themselves as active participants rather than simply passive learners/listeners.