Radical reflections: Passionate opinions on teaching, learning, and living - Softcover

Mem Fox

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9780729513210: Radical reflections: Passionate opinions on teaching, learning, and living

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ISBN 10: 0729513211 ISBN 13: 9780729513210

Publisher: NY Harcourt Brace, 1993

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This is a book of profound insights into the learning process, a book that will challenge educators and parents, to new ways of thinking about how we all learn and why.

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About the Author

MEM FOX is the author of many acclaimed books, including Possum Magic, Koala Lou, Time for Bed, and, for adults, Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever. She lives in Adelaide, Australia.

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With lighthearted anecdotes, poems, letters, and other writings, the renowned Australian children's book author entices teachers to do more writing themselves and rejects the "skills-and-drills" mentality in language arts teaching. Fox, an advocate of the "whole language" movement, fiercely condemns the use of basal readers in reading instruction classes. Their dullness, she maintains, causes students to avoid reading altogether. Fox recommends instead that real books be read and real language used. She advocates stories that bring teacher and student together in a relationship to experience genuine feeling, laughter, and fun. A superb writer, she constructs an excellent case, and surely any child would like to be a member of her reading/writing class. Her ideas are jotted down in a rather disorganized fashion, but her writing is fresh. For most public and academic libraries.
- Arla Lindgren, St. John's Univ., New York
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