Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Conversation about Teaching Reading in the 21st Century.

Autor/inn/en	Allington, Richard L.; McGill-Franzen, Anne
Institution	National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement, Albany, NY.
Titel	Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Conversation about Teaching Reading in the 21st Century.
Quelle	(1999), (40 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Curriculum Evaluation; Educational Assessment; Educational History; Educational Legislation; Educational Objectives; Elementary Education; Public Schools; Reading Attitudes; Reading Instruction; School Restructuring + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Curriculum; Evaluation; Curriculumevaluation; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Evaluierung; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Elementarunterricht; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Reading behavior; Rading behaviour; Leseverhalten; Leseunterricht; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung
Abstract	This paper presents a dialogue on the subject of reading instruction in the 20th century, comparing historical perceptions of American public schooling with those of contemporary schools. It suggests that prognosticating about schooling traditionally seems to fall into the two categories of wildly optimistic or cautiously pessimistic, and that the media have portrayed American schooling as a failure, a view both fed into and echoed by politicians and policy-makers. The paper notes that the contemporary perception is that public education has failed and drastic change is needed, particularly when the topic of literacy teaching and learning is the focus. It concludes that schools can and must make a difference in the lives of all children, and that the type of schools created in the 21st century will depend on societal decisions about teaching, learning, literacy, and the role of education in achieving the ideals of a democratic society. (Contains 100 references.) (EF)
Anmerkungen	National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222. Tel: 518-442-5026. For full text: http://cela.albany.edu./looking/index.html.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC