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Myers, Miles – Education and Urban Society, 1994
Reviews efforts to develop national content standards for teaching English. Today's standards movements are distinguished from earlier efforts in that the learner is recognized as active, the meaning is socially and historically contingent, and the purpose is the development of language for political power and the creation and appreciation of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Context Effect, Curriculum Development, Educational Change