CONTENTS
- Prolog
- Food for Thought
- Edusales.com
- Perplexed Teacher
- McTeaching
- Stranger than Fiction
- In Name Only
- Teacherspeak
- Raised Hands
- Zombie Detection
- How 2-B-A Mediocre Teacher
- Info Shock
- Clyde Dillybaum's Report Card
- Teacher Interview
- PLATO-700
- Streams of Knowledge
- Textese
- The Road to Wisdom
- 2 Seasons of Teaching
- Die-alog
- Empty Containers?
- culture of mediocrity
- Layered Learning
- Eñg£i$h $tüdies
- Engli-SS-h Only
- Applied Linguistics
- Eeeeentrance Eeeexams
- Ideal Students
- Entrance Cere-money
- Educational Labyrinth
- Before Class
- Tuned Out
- Classroom Dictator
- Natural Language Processing
- Travel Dialog
- Educational Inspector
- 2 B ahh Teacher
- TV Addiction
- 2 Teeeache
- Paths to Knowledge
- ABC University
- Leadership
- Problem Student
- Problem Teacher
- You can Be a Perfect Teacher!
- A Balanced Curriculum
- Classick Frustration
- Global Issues
- Student-Teacher Dialog
- Centering
- Astonished Students Comment
- The Experts
- TeACHErs?
- Hand of Insight
- Philosophy Lesson
- Night Fantasy
- Student Rant #34
- Another Teacher Rant
- School Ghosts
- Class Dynamics
- Teacher's Prayer
- Out-TeAcH
- Where Writing Starts
- The Politics of Linguistic Identity
- Within the Grain
- 3 Language Learners
- Programmed Responses
- Gentile Learning?
- Astronomy 101
- Learner Reactions
- Missing Elements
- Text Cohesion
- Crassroom
- The Lure of Books
- Invisible Teachers
- Teachers as Butchers
- How to Grill a Teacher
- The Effects of N-Beam Exposure on Writing
- Read On
- Post-Modern Education
- Glossary of Educational Terms
- Hand of Prophecy
- Postlog
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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
www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/

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