Classroom Practices In Teaching English 1968 69

Author : Charles Suhor
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1588383938
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Creativity and Chaos written by Charles Suhor and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Creativity and Chaos: Reflections on a Decade of Progressive Change in Public Schools, 1967–1977, Charles Suhor brings to life the bold challenges to the status quo in education during a decade of national turmoil. The regimentation and rote learning of traditional schooling could not have escaped the restless temper of the times―Vietnam war protests, racial strife, assassinations, hippie communes, the sexual revolution, an emerging drug culture, and daring innovations in pop/rock music. Suhor describes his immersion in post-World War II popular culture of New Orleans as a rich backdrop for his years as an impassioned educational reformer at local and national levels. A risk-taking teacher and district supervisor of English, he plunged headlong into controversies over black literature, censorship, ebonics, the "new grammar," faculty integration, testing, standardization, and computer technology. He demonstrates how the sweeping national trends often took quirky, distinctive turns in a city that delights in marching to a different drummer. Suhor's engaging account takes the reader into classrooms as well as the intrigues of central office politics and national leaders' disputes on how to best teach students in a time of change. In no sense a doctrinal liberal, he lambastes the errors and excesses of the progressive movement and traces its decline and the backlash demand for a return to basic skills. Suhor concludes with an update on innovations that have waned or persisted in today's schools.