A process approach to teacher education developed for the teaching of language arts and reading. (MJM)

Sees collaborative inquiry as what curriculum should be all about. Describes a curricular model in which disciplines become research devices that students constantly use rather than areas to be mastered. Identifies and discusses the five key processes that language plays in learning: voice, connection, perspective through transmediation, tension,…

Offers a peek inside the journals kept by a well-known language-arts educator, which he uses as a repository for his thoughts, drawings, articles of interest, notes from conversations with others on his own work, the work of others, and education in general. Shows how the journal is an "audit trail" of its owner's learning. (SR)

This report displays and briefly describes the set of professional competencies and other learning outcomes that comprise the objectives for elementary majors enrolled in the Indiana University competency-based teacher education program known as RELATE (Reading and Language Arts Teacher Education). This report is divided into 10 units and lists…

Argues that research is not only a product and a process but an attitude and suggests that the attitude of ethnography stresses that good teachers should act like good researchers and good researchers should act like good teachers. (JL)

Presents an in-depth interview with Ken and Yetta Goodman, awarded the second National Council of Teachers of English award for outstanding educator in the language arts. (SR)

This report describes the development and implementation of a process-oriented teacher education model for undergraduates in the area of reading/language arts, which stresses understanding of decision making for the classroom teacher. The historical development of the project is discussed, including: (a) conceptualization during the first year,…

This paper identifies some basic propositions regarding teacher preparation utilized by a curriculum development team in the development of a competency-based teacher education curriculum in reading and language arts. The propositions underlying this development effort had their genesis in the research and literature in teacher education, were…

Discusses what happens when students and teachers are encouraged to use multiple ways of knowing in mediating their experiences with the world. Suggests that a good language arts program expands the communication potential of all learners through the orchestration and use of multiple ways of knowing for purposes of ongoing interpretation and…

Student satisfaction was used as an interim success criterion of competency-based instruction in this evaluation of the 1972-73 Reading and Language Arts Teacher Education (RELATE) project. Project RELATE is a field-oriented, competency-based teacher education curriculum developed by the Indiana University system. Students (N=30) enrolled as…

Kimberly Huber's preliminary exploration of critical literacy is traced. The critical literacy project in which a complex set of literate practices taught the grade 2 and 3 children about power and the possibilities for local civic action is discussed.

This book is based on the belief that learners who are making meaning draw simultaneously on different dimensions of knowing--different forms of expression, different kinds of ideas, and different cultural frameworks. When honored and recognized in the classroom these differences create a richer way to explore the path to knowledge, according to…

Good language users monitor and understand their own involvement in the learning process. They understand how language is used to make and reshape their world. Everyone needs to be allowed to test his or her personal theories of the world against practice and vice versa. Given the nature of society, it is important that conceptions of literacy…