Crassroom Voices:

Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education



CONTENTS

  1. Prolog
  2. Food for Thought
  3. Edusales.com
  4. Perplexed Teacher
  5. McTeaching
  6. Stranger than Fiction
  7. In Name Only
  8. Teacherspeak
  9. Raised Hands
  10. Zombie Detection
  11. How 2-B-A Mediocre Teacher
  12. Info Shock
  13. Clyde Dillybaum's Report Card
  14. Teacher Interview
  15. PLATO-700
  16. Streams of Knowledge
  17. Textese
  18. The Road to Wisdom
  19. 2 Seasons of Teaching
  20. Die-alog
  21. Empty Containers?
  22. culture of mediocrity
  23. Layered Learning
  24. Eñg£i$h $tüdies
  25. Engli-SS-h Only
  26. Applied Linguistics
  27. Eeeeentrance Eeeexams
  28. Ideal Students
  29. Entrance Cere-money
  30. Educational Labyrinth
  31. Before Class
  32. Tuned Out
  33. Classroom Dictator
  34. Natural Language Processing
  35. Travel Dialog
  36. Educational Inspector
  37. 2 B ahh Teacher
  38. TV Addiction
  39. 2 Teeeache
  40. Paths to Knowledge
  41. ABC University
  42. Leadership
  43. Problem Student
  44. Problem Teacher
  45. You can Be a Perfect Teacher!
  46. A Balanced Curriculum
  47. Classick Frustration
  48. Global Issues
  49. Student-Teacher Dialog
  50. Centering
  51. Astonished Students Comment
  52. The Experts
  53. TeACHErs?
  54. Hand of Insight
  55. Philosophy Lesson
  56. Night Fantasy
  57. Student Rant #34
  58. Another Teacher Rant
  59. School Ghosts
  60. Class Dynamics
  61. Teacher's Prayer
  62. Out-TeAcH
  63. Where Writing Starts
  64. The Politics of Linguistic Identity
  65. Within the Grain
  66. 3 Language Learners
  67. Programmed Responses
  68. Gentile Learning?
  69. Astronomy 101
  70. Learner Reactions
  71. Missing Elements
  72. Text Cohesion
  73. Crassroom
  74. The Lure of Books
  75. Invisible Teachers
  76. Teachers as Butchers
  77. How to Grill a Teacher
  78. The Effects of N-Beam Exposure on Writing
  79. Read On
  80. Post-Modern Education
  81. Glossary of Educational Terms
  82. Hand of Prophecy
  83. Postlog

T Newfields (1998)
Introduction by T Newfields


This collection of poetry, art, dialogs, raves, and commentaries highlights some of my classroom experiences and feelings about education. Each work is, in a sense, a different vision of what can happen in the name of education. Many of these works are concerned about foreign language learning, but more than a few extend to education in general. Since half of my life has been devoted to language teaching, I've been especially been interested in the experiences which happen inside language classrooms under the name of "education". I'm also interested in the power relations between teachers and students and the way people develop situational personas to survive.

Hopefully, this work might inspire some readers to consider ways to better align educational hype with actual classroom practice. If you're unsure whether to read this actual work (most folks claim to be busy, right?), these excerpts will give you a quick overviews and help you decide.

Ver. 4.7   *   29 Apr. 2008   
Tokyo, Japan

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