ISBN: 0897891619

The book has more fire--more call to arms' gusto--than anything I've read on reading education. "Richard Abrahamson, University of Houston" "Broken Promises" is an important and powerful … mais…

The book has more fire--more call to arms' gusto--than anything I've read on reading education. "Richard Abrahamson, University of Houston" "Broken Promises" is an important and powerful book precisely because it provides the opportunity for us all to experience the kinds of insights and construct the kinds of understandings that we need to grow professionally and to be a profession. "Reading Research & Instruction Journal" The volume provides a cogent critique of majority practice. This is one of the few volumes that relate critical pedagogy, ' as exemplified by the work of Giroux, Apple, and others, to specific examples of school practice. Because reading instruction is a central school activity, this connection is significant and the content is of value to anyone interested in public education. "Choice" Shannon argues that a combination of psychology, science, and capitalism has transformed reading from a means of personal and social empowerment into an ability to perform well on tests and has transformed learning from a human transaction between teacher and student into an exchange between things--commercially packaged reading materials--and students. To rationalize reading instruction according to these principles, he says, is to silence the voices of readers and teachers. These compelling new ideas, carefully grounded in research, show how popular solutions to problems in reading instruction--mastery learning, merit pay, and school effectiveness research--actually work americas,curricula,curriculum and instruction,education,education and reference,education theory,history,humanities,language arts,language experience approach Curricula, ABC-CLIO, LLC<

1988, ISBN: 0897891619

[EAN: 9780897891615], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Bergin], EDUCATION / LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE APPROACH, CURRICULA, UNITED STATES, HISTORY, READING (ELEMENTARY), TEXTBOOKS, EFFECT OF TECHN… mais…

[EAN: 9780897891615], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Bergin], EDUCATION / LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE APPROACH, CURRICULA, UNITED STATES, HISTORY, READING (ELEMENTARY), TEXTBOOKS, EFFECT OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS ON, Good. Ex-library. Hard cover. This item is in Good condition. Good reading copy with moderate defects, but all pages are present. Ex-Library.<