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Illuminating Texts: How to Teach Students to Read the Worldreviewed by Elizabeth Henning - 2003 Title: Illuminating Texts: How to Teach Students to Read the World Author(s): Jim Burke
Publisher: Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH ISBN: 0867094974 , Pages: 224, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com In this wholesome book Jim Burke practices what he proposes by
providing teachers of English (and across the curriculum) with a
functional and dynamically networked text, rich in opportunities
for a multi-literate engagement with both the paper and the
electronic texts that he has composed and to which he has
connected. His medium serves his message well. He gives the reader
an opportunity to “read the world” of the teaching of
reading from where he has positioned himself. This position is one
whence he approaches reading mainly as skilful knowledge making and
identity construction. He argues, “For too long the
imagination and its role in education has been dismissed by the
public as irrelevant or even dangerous. But what are we doing as
teachers if not helping students to try on a series of possible
selves through our disciplines...” (p. 16). Burke has
composed a text that demonstrates what young people need to know to
be able to engage critically with the vast volumes of... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Elizabeth Henning
Rand Afrikaans University E-mail Author ELIZABETH HENNING is Professor of Educational Linguistics in the Department of Curriculum Studies at Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg, South Africa.
She was a Spencer Foundation postdoctoral Fellow in 1995-1996, then researching the professional development of unlicensed teachers in informal settlement community schools. She is presently engaged in research on online learning in teacher education courses and concomitant with that the identity development of teacher education students in online courses. Recent publications include Finding Your Way in Academic Writing (Van Schaik Publishers, 2002).
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