Linguistic Support for a Method of Teaching Beginning Reading to Black Children

Serwer, Blanche L.

doi:10.2307/747065

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Whole Language As a Political Movement1

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“…The LEA came out of a similar liberal impulse. For example, Serwer (1969) provided a linguistic argument that the LEA was the best approach for working with disadvantaged children since it used their language and their dialect rather than trying to teach both Standard English and reading at the same time. However, the 1960s were a time when America was generally liberal, with an earnest attempt to improve the lot of the poor through the Great Society programs and the War on Poverty.…”

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Why Innovations Come and Go (and Mostly Go): The Case of Whole Language

Stahl

1999

Educational Researcher

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There are lessons to be learned from the rapid rise and descent of the whole language movement. This paper reviews three aspects of the whole language movement. First, it is unprecedented for a progressive education movement to be as accepted by mainstream educators as whole language was. Second, whole language filled a need for a shift in pedagogy, from word recognition and comprehension to motivation, and from Reading-to-Learn to Reading-to-Enjoy. Third, the whole language movement was political, both in the means used to promote itself and in its notions that whole language instruction can effect societal change.

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confidence: 99%