Teaching The Universe Of Discourse

Teaching the universe of discourse

This book is addressed to teachers, other educators, and researchers in the many disciplines related to language learning. It comprises essays written while I was preparing A Student-Centered Language Arts Curriculum, Grades K-13: A Handbook for Teachers, to which it is meant to be a companion volume. Whereas the handbook proposes in some detail an experimental curriculum made up of particular practices and assignments for different ages, the present book sketches a pedagogical theory of discourse that may provide both a fuller rationale for the curriculum, if the reader is familiar with it, and, quite independently, a set of ideas to help advance the current task of reconceiving education in the native language. These essays represent one teacher's efforts to theorize about discourse expressly for teaching purposes.