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Contradictions of Control

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1988

Good teaching can't be engineered into existence, but an engineering approach to schooling can crowd out good teaching.

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Jonathan researches the why and how of teaching language and literacy with games in his Game Terakoya project. He co-edits the Ludic Language Pedagogy journal.
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Reimagining public middle schools in Western Michigan.
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Listening and learning from 400+ young people & educators.

Thomas White

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Thomas is a former high school English teacher, writer, and amateur gardener. He lives with his wife, his son, and two Australian Shepherd dogs. He writes about culture, policy, and school.

That Baseball Study Can’t Tell You How to Teach

June 29, 2020

The baseball study is a 1988 article frequently cited to support pedagogies based around highly-structured teacher-led classrooms.

Teachers are Not the Heroes

April 29, 2020

It’s time to fight adultism and re-center the wants and needs of students.

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The difference with school communities, just looking at a normal mainstream school community, what I perceive is a community where there's lots of external goals. You've got five stickers for being great. You've got three they call them smiley faces or they have a name for something. So there's an external reward for being good. For me, it's just like, "Eh-eh." It's such a fundamentally wrong thing in a community to have that as your basis of if you're good or bad.

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