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. Interview with a model teacher
  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. Thanks to Our Teachers
  41. Student Grading
  42. Grade Inflation
  43. ABC University
  44. Leadership
  45. Problem Student
  46. Problem Teacher
  47. You can Be a Perfect Teacher!
  48. A Balanced Curriculum
  49. Classick Frustration
  50. Global Issues
  51. Student-Teacher Dialog 1
  52. Student-Teacher Dialog 2
  53. Student-Teacher Dialog 3
  54. Centering
  55. Astonished Students Comment
  56. Shouldn't We Expect Excellence?
  57. The Experts
  58. TeACHErs?
  59. Hand of Insight
  60. Philosophy Lesson
  61. Night Fantasy
  62. Student Rant #4334
  63. Another Teacher Rant
  64. Teacher Reflections
  65. School Ghosts
  66. Class Dynamics
  67. Teacher Prayer
  68. Out-TeAcH
  69. Where Writing Starts
  70. Kitchen Table Rhetoric
  71. When Rhetoric Gets Hard
  72. In the Shadow of Ancients
  73. The Politics of Linguistic Identity
  74. 3 Language Learners
  75. Programmed Responses
  76. Gentile Learning?
  77. Astronomy 101
  78. Learner Reactions
  79. Missing Elements
  80. Text Cohesion
  81. Crassroom
  82. The Lure of Books
  83. Invisible Teachers
  84. Teachers as Butchers
  85. How to Grill a Teacher
  86. The Effects of N-Beam Exposure on Writing
  87. Read On
  88. Post-Modern Education
  89. Eye-Opener
  90. Glossary of Educational Terms
  91. Hand of Prophecy
  92. 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 education in general. Since half of my life has been teaching English in Japan, I've been especially been interested things that happen inside language classrooms under the name of "education". I'm also interested in the power relations between teachers and students and how people develop situational personas to accomodate the worlds around them.

If you're unsure whether to read this actual work (most folks claim to be busy, right?), these excerpts will give you a quick overview and help you decide.

Ver. 5.1   *   22 Aug. 2011   
Tokyo, Japan

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