Uncommon Sense: Theoretical Practice in Language Education

Mayher, John S; Boomer, Jean [Foreword]

ISBN 10: 0867092475 / ISBN 13: 9780867092479

Published by Heinemann, 1989

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Uncommon Sense: Theoretical Practice in Language Education
• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0867092475
• ISBN 13: 9780867092479
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

In several decades as a language educator, Mayher has been attempting to help teachers and curriculum directors conceptualize and implement progressive approaches to language education-the ideas and practices he characterizes in this book as uncommon sense. He traces his own evolution as a teacher/learner by recapturing the processes of reflection and inquiry he went through when confronted by contradictions between the way commonsense teaching and learning were supposed to work and the actual experiences of students in his classrooms.

About the Author

JOHN S. MAYHER has taught junior high school in Massachusetts and high school in California. He has been a professor of English Education at New York University since 1969, where he teaches courses in the theoretical practice of language teaching and learning.