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Moutray, Carol L.; Pollard, Jean Ann; McGinley, Jill – Middle School Journal, 2001
Examines the benefits of reader response by means of student letters to authors. Notes that students involved in response writing become more interested in reading, are more reflective individuals, and more responsible for monitoring and resolving their own questions. (SD)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Influences, Cultural Relevance
Wilson, Mervyn; Sivers, Chris; Brown, Clare; Templeton, Peter; Freestone, Patrick; Adshead, Jennifer; Rae, Donald – Adults Learning, 2005
In his February Commentary for "Adults Learning" (Volume 16, Number 6), NIACE Director Alan Tuckett warned that without greater public investment, provision for many adults would be under threat. This article presents several responses from some important players, from across the learning and skills sector. These include: (1)…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Adult Learning, Government Role, Politics of Education
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Groothuis, Douglas – Theory and Research in Education, 2004
This article finds Michael's Hand's argument for the abolition of faith schools to be deficient because key premises of his argument seem false. I argue that the concept of knowledge that Hand employs in arguing that no religious proposition is known to be true is overly strict. I reject Siegel's attempt to amend Hand's argument to make it…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Reader Response, Spiritual Development, Program Termination
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McEneaney, Elizabeth H. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2002
"Educational Knowledge: Changing Relationships between the State, Civil Society, and the Educational Community," edited by Tom Popkewitz, is generally a collection of essays which emphasizes theoretical explications of the linkages between the state, society, and educationists. The author found that the book makes critically important…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Knowledge Level, Reader Response, Content Analysis
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Hull, John M. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2005
Religious education in England and Germany is similar in many respects and different in others. In both countries the subject must embrace religious plurality, and in both there are questions about the role of the religious communities in their relation to religious education. In recent his book, "Religious Education in a Plural, Western…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Comparative Education, Reader Response
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Latendresse, Carter – Middle School Journal (J3), 2004
This article discusses a reading instruction applicable to widely diverse classrooms, because it weaves together dynamic strands from three approaches to teaching reading: literature circle method, reciprocal teaching, and modern literary theories. The author presents three stages to achieve reading success: (1) applying the key features of…
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Reciprocal Teaching, Reader Response, Reading Instruction
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Smith, Sally A.; Singer, Judith Y. – Urban Education, 2006
This study documents literature discussions between groups of teacher education students in two geographically and demographically different universities. Students from an education methods course at each site discussed "The Friendship" by Mildred Taylor with one another as part of a distance reader response project. The project was designed to…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Fiction, Urban Schools, Online Courses
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Myers, Jamie – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2006
The integration of digital tools and multimodal representations in the English classroom has the greatest potential when we define literacy as multiple socially constructed practices. If digital literacies are defined as autonomous tools and isolated symbolic systems, reduced to a set of skills and forms for students to reproduce, then school…
Descriptors: Literacy, Media Literacy, Educational Practices, Reader Response
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Seals, Greg – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2006
Jane Roland Martin's later work, especially as represented in "The Schoolhome: Rethinking Schools for Changing Families," has been attacked as vague, essentialistic, and a formula for the (re)feminization of education. This paper does not attempt to defend Martin against these criticisms because such a defense seems impossible for…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Gender Discrimination, Social Justice, Epistemology
Shipman-Campbell, Alice – 1995
The goal of this practicum was to increase the opportunities of secondary African American and Latino students to critically read, think, and write about literature that was diverse both in terms of culture and gender. Although the students (61 students in grade 11) had completed 2 years of high school English classes, the overwhelming majority of…
Descriptors: Black Students, Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Cultural Differences
McCarthy, Tara – 1996
This book, intended for teachers of grades 4-8, is organized into 9 units with distinct genres or subgenres of literature. Each of the units begins with an overview for the teacher summarizing the essential characteristics of the genre, followed by pre-reading activities to help students recall and organize their previous reading, followed by a…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques
DeKay, Sam – 1996
Pointing out that influential movements in psychology, reading instruction, and curriculum development have greatly altered the terrain formerly occupied by the "teaching of literature," this literature review outlines the different ways education researchers have examined the following questions about literature instruction: (1) What…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Childrens Literature, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking
Swan, Karen; Meskill, Carla – 1995
A response-based pedagogy encourages the exploration of multiple perspectives regarding literary works and student construction of defensible interpretations of the same, with the quality of students' critical and creative thinking being the focus of assessment. The National Center for Research on Literature Teaching and Learning's ongoing…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
Strube, Penny – 1996
Intended as a guide for teachers of grades 3-6, this book presents ideas for the use of literature groups in the classroom. In chapter 1, the author talks about her own reading background and her discovery of teaching methods for literature, and presents ideas for forming literature groups. Chapter 2 offers advice on selecting and collecting good…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
Scollon, Ron – 1996
A study analyzed the discourse in a variety of Hong Kong newspapers to assess how an individual takes on the role of reader in relation to the rather complex public discourse of a daily newspaper, particularly in a multicultural, politically charged context. Four categories of newspaper (Hong Kong English, Hong Kong Chinese, non-Hong Kong Chinese,…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Cultural Context, Cultural Pluralism, Discourse Analysis
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