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Direct linkGilles, Carol – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2023
Whole language (WL), emerging in the late 1970s, was a theory-in-practice, grass-roots teachers' movement that dramatically changed classrooms worldwide. With an emphasis on student-centered, meaning-focused, experiential, and interactive engagement with the curriculum, this movement offered more choices and possibilities for classroom teachers…
Descriptors: Whole Language Approach, Linguistic Theory, Student Centered Learning, Experiential Learning
Whitmore, Kathryn F.; Goodman, Yetta M. – School Administrator, 1992
The whole-language movement is challenging educators to reconsider their early childhood programs and assumptions about children and learning. This article explores four promises of whole-language philosophy central to early childhood education (language, active learning, play, and home-school relationships), and explores some program…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Experiential Learning, Family School Relationship, Play
