ERIC Number: ED297365
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1988-Sep
Pages: 300
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: ISBN-0-86709-237-8
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The Word for Teaching Is Learning: Essays for James Britton.
Lightfoot, Martin, Ed.; Martin, Nancy, Ed.
Reflecting the influence of James Britton in the field of language and learning, this book--a collection of essays by researchers and practitioners in the area of language and learning--focuses on recent issues of language development in learning. The book contains the following 27 essays: (1) "Social Interaction as Scaffold: The Power and Limits of a Metaphor" (Courtney Cazden); (2) "Knowledge as Action" (Douglas Barnes); (3) "Learning Listening" (Gordon Pradl); (4) "Drawing a Story: Transitions between Drawing and Writing" (Myra Barrs); (5) "Stories at Home and at School" (Henrietta Dombey); (6) "How Texts Teach What Readers Learn" (Margaret Meek); (7) "I wanna write jes like in dat book!": Talk and Its Role in the Shared Journal Experience" (Amanda Branscombe and Janet Taylor); (8) "Places for Evolving Autobiography: English Classes at Work in the Curriculum (Claire Woods); (9) "On Difference: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity and English Teaching" (Tony Burgess); (10) "Reality, Play and Pleasure in English" (Peter Medway); (11) "Doing Things with Language: Skills, Functionalism and Social Context" (Mike Torbe); (12) "Stories of Stories: Footnotes on Sly Gossipy Practices" (Harold Rosen); (13) "The Enterprise We Are Part of: Learning To Teach" (Arthur Applebee); (14) "Institutionalizing Change: The Problem of System Beliefs" (Don Rutledge); (15) "Negotiating the System: A Letter to James Britton" (Garth Boomer); (16) "Teaching English as a Rehearsal of Politics" (Martin Lightfoot); (17) "Starting a School: Learning with Jimmy Britton" (Merlyn Rees); (18) "Books of Verse and Books of Stories" (Mary Worrall); (19) "James Britton and Poetry" (Nancy Martin); (20) "James Britton at the London Institute of Education" (Denis Lawton); (21) "Jimmy Britton and NATE" (Bill Mittins); (22) "Jimmy Britton and Linguistics" (Ian Pringle); (23) "Dartmouth" (W. W. Douglas); (24) "A Community of Inquiry: James Britton and Educational Research" (Janet Emig); (25) "Teachers Learning about Learning" (Pat D'Arcy); (26) "And Gladly Learn" (Margaret Gill); and (27) "A Centre of Influence" (Merron Chorny). (MM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Language Role, Language Usage, Learning Processes, Linguistics, Literacy, Reader Text Relationship, Teacher Role, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship
Heinemann Educational Books, 70 Court St., Portsmouth, NH 03801 ($17.50).
Publication Type: Books; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National Association for the Teaching of English (England).; Heinemann Educational Books, Ltd., London (England).
Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Great Britain)
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