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Title: Reflections and Connections: Essays in Honor of Kenneth S. Goodman's Influence on Language Education by Ann M. Marek, Carole Edelsky ISBN: 1572731575 Publisher: Hampton Pr Pub. Date: February, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $85.00

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Summary: loving language and learning
Comment: Changes in both our society and our knowledge of how humans learn require that we develop new ways of teaching. The jobs of the past are extinct, as should be the old factory methods of teaching (sit in rows, memorize the anwer, shut your mouth, keep your eyes on your own paper, respond to the bells, wait for the teacher/foreman to tell you what to do). We must teach children so they will be able to enter the work force of this century, i.e.,to be collabortive inquirers who can solve problems and invent new things. Thank God thinkers like Ken Goodman have brought humanity into our schools and an environment that fosters a love of learning. We still have lots to learn about teaching reading and writing, but we cannot go backwards to the methods of the 19th century, lest we risk having a society that marginalizes large groups of people and that is unprepared for the challenges of the technological age. Ken Goodman is to be honored for helping to move education forward into the new century.

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Summary: An Obituary for a Dead Fad
Comment: Talk about irony! At the same time that contributors to this pistache of self congratulations "honor" Kenneth Goodman, reading researchers, parents' groups, and even state departments of public instruction are ridding schools of the whole language fad that made a large percentage of this generation of students illiterate in reading and therefore in every subject that depends on reading. This book will be useful to persons who want to understand how faddists legitimize and valorize destructive nonsense.