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Only Disconnect: Rereading Margaret Meek Spencer -- Of Policies and Practices
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Goodwyn, Andy – English in Education, 2022
This article reviews Margaret Meek Spencer's body of work in relation to the various policies that she critiqued from the Bullock Report in 1974 to the National Literacy Strategy in 2004. She analysed increasingly conservative moves to promote a dominant, elitist version of school literacy. A Critical Realist perspective aligns with Margaret Meek…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Political Attitudes, Independent Reading, Intellectual Development
What Is College English? Stories about Reading: Appearance, Disappearance, Morphing, and Revival
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Salvatori, Mariolina Rizzi; Donahue, Patricia – College English, 2012
A question that captured our attention many years ago and continues to motivate our work, although the audience for that work has expanded and contracted over the years, is "What about reading?" In this essay we adopt a term used to frame discussion at the 2010 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)--remix--to revisit in three…
Descriptors: College English, Conferences (Gatherings), Intellectual Disciplines, Classification
The Mind's Journey from Novice to Expert: If We Know the Route, We Can Help Students Negotiate Their Way.
Bruer, John T. – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1993
Research of cognitive scientists is resulting in new learning theories through which students can move from novice to expert. How cognitive scientists work and how their results are applied are discussed. Reciprocal teaching, as implemented in the Springfield (Illinois) schools, provides an example of a successful research-based technique. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Educational Research, Educational Theories