Andrea Lunsford's "Collaboration, Control, and the Idea of a Writing Center" . . . some thoughts

I wonder if Lunsford's terms are tongue-in-cheek in this article (esp. "Burkean Parlor Centers"). I always thought that a writing center was a mix of all three, especially collaboration. Yes, we "store" knowledge, but not to keep it from students; we also try to draw out what the student already knows. But this exchange of information can only happen within a dialogue, collaboration.

She seems to be taking a lot from Freire's book Pedagogy of the Oppressed in this article. The Storehouse Center idea sounds a lot like his banking concept. She also seems afraid of the collaboration becoming a hegemonic (that one's for you, Janice) environment where the status quo is never challenged. She wants to avoid the tutor/teacher centered learning environment, but she doesn't propose a student-centered one, either. Control rests with the "negotiating group." Sounds lovely, but how to put it into effect? All I get is "be careful" about collaboration. Any thoughts?