Uncommon Sense,9780867092479

Uncommon Sense

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ISBN13: 9780867092479
ISBN10: 0867092475
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1989-10-23
Publisher(s): Heinemann
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Summary

Mayher traces his own evolution as a teacher/learner by recapturing the processes of reflection and inquiry he went through when confronted by contradictions between the way commonsense teaching and learning were supposed to work and the actual experiences of students in his classrooms.

Author Biography

JOHN S. MAYHER has taught junior high school in Massachusetts and high school in California. He has been a professor of English Education at New York University since 1969, where he teaches courses in the theoretical practice of language teaching and learning.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Garth Boomer
Acknowledgments xiii
Introducing Uncommon Sense
1(12)
Toward Uncommon Sense
2(3)
Toward Reflective Practice
5(4)
The Roles of the Readers of This Book
9(4)
The Roots of Common Sense
13(34)
English Teaching Circa 1961
13(4)
Hierarchies of Schooling
17(3)
Subject English
20(4)
English and ``The National Interest''
24(3)
The Tripod Curriculum
Literature
27(2)
Composition
29(3)
Language/Grammar
32(3)
Common Sense Meets Personal Growth
35(3)
The Impact of the Personal Growth Approach
38(3)
Contemporary Common Sense: Cultural Literacy and Excellence
41(6)
Commonsense Learning
47(28)
Commonsense Metaphors for Learning
50(3)
Behaviorism: Support for Skills and Drills
53(4)
Commonsense Schooling and the Control of Learning
57(1)
Commonsense Discriminations: Grouping, Tracking, and IQ
58(5)
Commonsense Knowledge: External, Objective, Conscious
63(2)
Commonsense Transmissions
65(3)
Short vs. Long Term Teaching: Learning to Forget
68(4)
Commonsense Learning: A Brief Summary
72(3)
Uncommonsense Learning
75(32)
Learning in Context
75(4)
Personal Knowledge
79(3)
Uncommonsense Metaphors for Learning
82(1)
Learning Is Learning: In School and Out
83(1)
Tacit Learning
84(1)
Top-Down/Holistic Learning
85(4)
Competent children
89(1)
Spontaneous and Scientific Learning
90(6)
Learning How to Learn
96(3)
Learning and Narrative
99(5)
Uncommonsense Learning: A Brief Summary
104(3)
Language I: Nature of the System and How We Acquire It
107(30)
My Path Toward Uncommon Sense
107(1)
The Study of Language
108(2)
The Common Sense of Language
110(2)
Uncommonsense Language: Generative Grammar
112(2)
Language as a Creative System
114(5)
The Psychology and Biology of Language
119(2)
Language Acquisition
121(4)
The History and Sociology of Language
125(4)
Language Development in the School Years
129(4)
Summary
133(4)
Language II: How the System Is Used to Make Meaning
137(38)
Commonsense Communication: The Code Theory
139(5)
The Code Theory Goes to School
144(2)
Toward an Uncommonsense Theory of Communication
146(4)
Cooperating in Communicating
150(3)
Relevance Theory
153(2)
Relevance in the Classroom
155(4)
Metaphors and Schemas: Structuring Our Worlds
159(4)
Functions and Forms of Language Use
163(3)
Transactions in Action
166(9)
Integrating the Four Modes of Language Use: Listening/Speaking/Reading/Writing
175(40)
Peninsula High School: English 11
176(13)
Uncommonsense Excellence
189(3)
P.S. 71: Fourth Grade
192(10)
Some Obstacles to Integrating Language Education
202(4)
Why an Integrated Language Education?
206(1)
Integration in Action: Achieving Literacy
207(8)
Developing Language Abilities in Uncommonsense Classrooms
215(32)
Uncommonsense Reading Competence
216(10)
Uncommonsense Writing Competence
226(14)
Uncommonsense Speaking and Listening Competence
240(7)
Uncommonsense Teaching in Context: Toward Uncommonsense Schools
247(46)
Teacher Autonomy?
250(4)
testing, Testing, TESTING!
254(7)
Uncommonsense Assessment
261(2)
Negotiating the Curriculum
263(4)
Schools and the Economy
267(4)
The Role of Teacher Education
271(2)
``Teaching and Learning: A Profound Confusion''
273(2)
The Common Sense of Teaching
275(2)
Determining Teacher Competence
277(6)
Learning Teachers: Reflective Transactions
283(3)
Toward Uncommonsense Teaching Competence: A Summary
286(7)
References 293(10)
Index 303

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