Teaching the universe of discourse

About this book

This book is addressed to teachers other educators and researchers in the many disciplines related to language learning. It comprises essays written while I was preparing A Student-Centered Language Arts Curriculum Grades K-13: A Handbook for Teachers to which it is meant to be a companion volume. Whereas the handbook proposes in some detail an experimental curriculum made up of particular practices and assignments for different ages the present book sketches a pedagogical theory of discourse that may provide both a fuller rationale for the curriculum if the reader is familiar with it and quite independently a set of ideas to help advance the current task of reconceiving education in the native language. These essays represent one teachers efforts to theorize about discourse expressly for teaching purposes.