Crassroom Voices:

Reflections on Education


CONTENTS

  1. Characters
  2. Prolog
  3. Food for Thought
  4. Edusales.com
  5. McTeaching
  6. Stranger than Fiction
  7. In Name Only
  8. Teacherspeak
  9. Raised Hands
  10. Students that Fail
  11. Students that Succeed
  12. Factory schools
  13. Zombie Detection
  14. How 2-B-A Mediocre Teacher
  15. Info Shock
  16. Clyde Dillybaum's Report Card
  17. Interview with a model teacher
  18. Classroom Ideologies
  19. PLATO-700
  20. Streams of Knowledge
  21. Textese
  22. The Road to Wisdom
  23. 2 Seasons of Teaching
  24. Die-alog
  25. Empty Containers?
  26. culture of mediocrity
  27. Linguistic Identitiā‚¬$
  28. Layered Learning
  29. The English of Today?
  30. Eñg£i$h $tüdies
  31. Engli-SS-h Only
  32. Applied Linguistics
  33. Eeeeentrance Eeeexams
  34. Ideal Students
  35. Entrance Cere-money
  36. Educational Labyrinth
  37. Before Class
  38. Tuned Out
  39. Classroom Dictator
  40. Natural Language Processing
  41. Travel Dialog
  42. Educational Inspector
  43. 2 B ahh Teacher
  44. TV Addiction
  45. 2 Teeeache
  46. Thanks to Our Teachers
  47. Student Grading
  48. Grade Inflation
  49. ABC University
  50. Leadership
  51. Problem Student
  52. Problem Teacher
  53. You can Be a Perfect Teacher!
  54. A Balanced Curriculum
  55. Global Issues
  56. Student-Teacher Dialog 1
  57. Student-Teacher Dialog 2
  58. Student-Teacher Dialog 3
  59. Centering
  60. Astonished Students Comment
  61. Shouldn't We Expect Excellence?
  62. The Experts
  63. A Question of Time
  64. TeACHErs?
  65. Hand of Insight
  66. Philosophy Lesson
  67. Night Fantasy
  68. Student Rant #4334
  69. Another Teacher Rant
  70. Teacher Reflections
  71. School Ghosts
  72. Info-Spheres
  73. Class Dynamics
  74. Teacher Prayer
  75. Out-TeAcH
  76. Where Writing Starts
  77. Kitchen Table Rhetoric
  78. When Rhetoric Gets Hard
  79. In the Shadow of Ancients
  80. The Politics of Linguistic Identity
  81. 3 Language Learners
  82. Programmed Responses
  83. Babbit's Babble
  84. Astronomy 101
  85. Study Abroad Poem
  86. Learner Reactions
  87. Missing Elements
  88. Discourse Cohesion
  89. Crassroom
  90. The Lure of Books
  91. Invisible Teachers
  92. Teachers as Butchers
  93. How to Grill a Teacher
  94. The Effects of N-Beam Exposure…
  95. Read On
  96. Post-Modern Education
  97. The Last Class
  98. Eye-Opener
  99. Glossary of Educational Terms
  100. Hand of Prophecy
  101. Postlog
T Newfields (1998)
This collection of poetry, art, dialogs, raves, and commentaries highlights some classroom experiences and my feelings about education. Each piece is a different vision of what can happen in the name of education. Many of these works are concerned with foreign language instruction, but more than a few with education in general. Since half of my life has been teaching English in Asia, I've been especially been interested in things that happen inside language classrooms. The complex power relations between teachers, students, administrators, and textbook publishers are underscored in many of these works.

Ver. 7.5   *   27 Nov. 2023   *   Yokohama, Japan

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Topic Index

Authoritarian teachers,   Class dynamics,   Classical education,   Classroom metaphors,   Classroom results,   Cognoscenti,   Commencement ceremonies,   Compu-teaching,   Cross-disciplinary awareness   Crass pedagogy,   Degree mills,   De-programming,   Edu-marketing,   Education & conformity,   Education & politics,   Educational control,   Educational jargon,   Educational measurement,   Educational quality,   English,   Fossilized conversations,   Futile protests,   Gender stereotypes,   Global issues,   Grade inflation,   Grading criteria,   Language policies,   Language politics,   Lecture-mode teaching,   Linguistic identity,   Linguistic imperalism,   Mass education,   McDonalized education,   Mediocracy,   Mind-numbing instruction,   Monologs vs. multilogs,   Neural implants,   Pedagogy,   Prayer in class,   Problem students,   Prophecy,   Pseudo-research,   Psycho-rhetorics,   Rant vs. reflection,   Reading,   Report cards,   Sanitized texts,   School slander,   Student inquiries,   Student/teacher communication gaps,   Successful students,   Teacher burnout,   Teacher butchery,   Teacher incompetence,   Teacher politics,   Teacher priorities,   Teacher roles,   Teacher/Student relations,   Teacher talk,   Teacher training scams,   Teaching,   Television,   Text/image alchemy,   Textual genesis,   Textual seduction,   Thanatology,   The sociology of schooling,   Time management,   Unethical research,   Unsuccessful students

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