http://jlefils.edublogs.org/2008/02/09/pedagogy-of-the-absurd-teaching-to-change-the-world-chapter-4/ Just another Edublogs.org weblog Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:42:39 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://jlefils.edublogs.org/2008/02/09/pedagogy-of-the-absurd-teaching-to-change-the-world-chapter-4/comment-page-1/#comment-5 crothstein Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:15:28 +0000 http://jlefils.edublogs.org/2008/02/09/pedagogy-of-the-absurd-teaching-to-change-the-world-chapter-4/#comment-5 Hi Julie, Thank you so much for your comments. You always think things out with depth. I didn't even think to look at the publisher of our book! The point that the article and the chapter was making about Lyn Cheney and the politics of education is that she and other conservatives turned it into a singularity- it must be one size fits all. Yes we must teach for basic truths and we must teach test taking skills, but why is it a WAR? Because we, as educators were attacked by the political realm. By outsiders. By people who didn't know the ins and outs of pedagogy and the reality of our students. Teachers became the enemy. WHY? The truth is we need phonics and experience learning and total immersion. Children need it all. But the real question is, why we as teachers have let politicians take the power of the way we teach away from us? Hi Julie,
Thank you so much for your comments. You always think things out with depth. I didn’t even think to look at the publisher of our book! The point that the article and the chapter was making about Lyn Cheney and the politics of education is that she and other conservatives turned it into a singularity- it must be one size fits all. Yes we must teach for basic truths and we must teach test taking skills, but why is it a WAR? Because we, as educators were attacked by the political realm. By outsiders. By people who didn’t know the ins and outs of pedagogy and the reality of our students. Teachers became the enemy. WHY? The truth is we need phonics and experience learning and total immersion. Children need it all. But the real question is, why we as teachers have let politicians take the power of the way we teach away from us?

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