Uncommon sense : theoretical practice in language education / John S. Mayher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302).

Foreword / Garth Boomer -- Introducing Uncommon Sense -- Toward Uncommon Sense -- Toward Reflective Practice -- The Roles of the Readers of This Book -- The Roots of Common Sense -- English Teaching Circa 1961 -- Hierarchies of Schooling -- Subject English -- English and The National Interest -- The Tripod Curriculum -- Common Sense Meets Personal Growth -- The Impact of the Personal Growth Approach -- Contemporary Common Sense: Cultural Literacy and Excellence -- Commonsense Learning -- Commonsense: Metaphors for Learning -- Behaviorism: Support for Skills and Drills -- Commonsense Schooling and the Control of Learning -- Commonsense Discriminations: Grouping, Tracking, and IQ -- Commonsense Knowledge: External, Objective, Conscious -- Commonsense Transmissions - Short vs. Long Term Teaching: Learning to Forget -- Commonsense Learning: A Brief Summary -- Uncommonsense Learning -- Learning in Context -- Personal Knowledge -- Uncommonsense Metaphors for Learning -- Learning is Learning: In School and Out -- Tacit Learning -- Top-Down/Holistic Learning -- Competent Children -- Spontaneous and Scientific Learning -- Learning How to Learn -- Learning and Narrative -- Uncommonsense Learning: A Brief Summary -- Language I: Nature of the System and How We Acquire It -- My Path Toward Uncommon Sense -- The Study of Language -- Uncommonsense Language: Generative Grammar -- Language as a Creative System -- The Psychology and Biology of Language -- Language Acquisition -- The History and Sociology of Language -- Language Development in the School Years -- Language II: How the System is Used to Make Meaning -- Commonsense Communication: The Code Theory -- The Code Theory Goes to School -- Toward an Uncommonsense Theory of Communication -- Cooperating in Communicating -- Relevance Theory -- Relevance in the Classroom -- Metaphors and Schemas: Structuring Our Worlds -- Functions and Forms of Language Use -- Transactions in Action -- Integrating the Four Modes of Language Use: Listening/Speaking/Reading/Writing -- Peninsula High School: English 11 -- Uncommonsense Excellence -- P.S. 71: Fourth Grade -- Some Obstacles to Integrating Language Education -- Why an Integrated Language Education? -- Integration in Action: Achieving Literacy -- Developing Language Abilities in Uncommonsense Classrooms -- Uncommonsense Reading Competence -- Uncommonsense Writing Competence -- Uncommonsense Speaking and Listening Competence -- Uncommonsense Teaching in Context: Toward Uncommonsense Schools -- Teacher Autonomy? -- testing, Testing, TESTING! -- Uncommonsense Assessment -- Negotiating the Curriculum -- Schools and the Economy -- The Role of Teacher Education -- Teaching and Learning: A Profound Confusion -- The Common Sense of Teaching -- Determining Teacher Competence -- Learning Teachers: Reflective Transactions -- Toward Uncommonsense Teaching Competence

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