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Rethinking language arts : passion and practice
- Title
- Rethinking language arts : passion and practice / Nina Zaragoza.
- Author
- Zaragoza, Nina.
- Publication
- New York : Garland Pub., 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | LB1575.8 .Z37 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 190 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- In Rethinking Language Arts: Passion and Practice, author Nina Zaragoza uses the form of letters to her students to engage pre-service teachers in reevaluating teaching practices, thus bringing to life a vision of an alternative classroom environment in which the teacher is the prime mover and creative leader. Zaragoza discusses and explains the need for teachers to be decision makers, reflective thinkers, political beings, and agents of social change in order to create a positive and inclusive classroom setting. This book is both a critical text that deconstructs the way language arts are traditionally taught in our schools as well as a visionary text with clear, no-nonsense directions on how to provide much needed change in our schools.
- Series Statement
- Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1014. Critical education practice ; v. 9
- Uniform Title
- Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1014.
- Garland reference library of social science. Critical education practice ; v. 9.
- Subject
- Language arts > United States
- Critical thinking > Study and teaching > United States
- Critical pedagogy > United States
- Teachers > Training of > Philosophy. > United States
- Critical pedagogy
- Critical thinking > Study and teaching
- Language arts
- Teachers > Training of > Philosophy
- Philologie
- Kritische Pädagogik
- Sprachunterricht
- Pädagogische Psychologie
- Literaturunterricht
- Langage > Art
- Esprit critique > Étude et enseignement
- Pédagogie critique
- Enseignement > Philosophie
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]) and index.
- Contents
- Letter 1. Introduction -- Letter 2. The Reflective Educator: Rethinking the Teacher As Practitioner -- Letter 3. Teaching within Community: Rethinking Blocked Schedules -- Letter 4. Broadening Our Definitions: Rethinking What We Say about Our Children and Their Learning -- Letter 5. Children as Authors in a Writers' Workshop: Rethinking "My Summer Vacation" -- Letter 6. Teaching As Human Community: Rethinking the Bluebirds, Robins and Buzzards -- Letter 7. Allowing Students to Think: Rethinking "Teaching Students What to Think" -- Letter 8. Playwrights in Action: Rethinking Poetry and Drama in the Classroom -- Letter 9. Authentic Evaluation: Rethinking the Friday Spelling Tests.
- ISBN
- 0815319584
- 9780815319580
- 0815323220
- 9780815323228
- LCCN
- 96034470
- OCLC
- ocm35292704
- 35292704
- SCSB-8901455
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library