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Ken Goodman, ed.
Year: 1998
Media: 192 pp/paper
ISBN: 978-157110-086-3
Grade Range: K-12
Item No.: WEB-0086
Price: $20.00
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This book is only available in e-book format. Is whole language the cause of the problems that beset our schools? Is the debate between whole language and phonics a cover-up for control of what and how students learn?Is it appropriate that legislators, lobbyists, textbook publishers, and private interest groups evaluate and promote research on teaching and learning?Is Christian fundamentalism being exploited by political and economic groups?Is the attack on whole language supported by research that is valid?Is the issue of teaching reading now so polarized that even a "balanced" approach is no longer acceptable in some schools?These questions have come out of the reading wars. And teachers now must be articulate and knowledgeable defendants of their own positions in the debate if they are to retain control of their profession. In Defense of Good Teaching is the whole language community's first concerted response to its attackers, reveals some disturbing truths in the reading wars: deliberate misrepresentation of ideas, about the role of the press, conflicting political agendas played out in our schools, teachers and administrators marginalized for their beliefs, and commercial interests dressed up as scientific research. This is an alarming and enlightening book and, as the dispute broadens to affect teaching of math and bilingual education, it is an important book. It will be invaluable to teachers who want the means and strategies to respond to criticism, to analyze arguments and to defend their position. More is at stake than whole language.
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Contents
1. Who's Afraid of Whole
Language? Politics, Paradigms, Pedagogy, and the Press by Kenneth
S. Goodman
2. It's a Long Story - And
It's Not Done Yet by Carole Edelsky
3. What's Religion Got to Do
with Attacks on Whole Language? by Ellen H. Brinkley
4. California Reading: The Pendulum
Swings by David Freeman and Yvonne S. Freeman
5. We'll Eat the Elephant One
Bite at a Time: The Continuing Battle for Control of Literacy
Education in Texas by Linda Ellis
6. Mandating Methodology: Promoting
the Use of Phonics Through State Statute by Frances R. A.
Paterson
7. Phonics, Whole Language, and the
Religious and Political Right by Constance Weaver and Ellen H.
Brinkley
8. Thirty Years of Research in
Reading: When Is a Research Summary Not a Research Summary? by
Richard I. Allington and Haley Woodside-Jiron
9. The Sky Is Falling: Whole Language
Meets Henny Penny by Sharon Murphy
10. Whole Language as Decoy: The Real
Agenda Behind the Attacks by Bess Altwerger
11. Organizing for Political Action:
Suggestions from Experience by Ellen H. Brinkley and Constance
Weaver
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