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How should we teach students to interpret texts?

Dec 12, 2021 | Category: English
The default approach to so much English teaching is to present students with a text and then say some version of, "What do you think of this?" If you're fortunate enough to teach in a selective settin...
#cognitive load theory #Michael Oakeshott #IA Richards

How to read creatively: noticing in English

Oct 03, 2020 | Category: English
… languages recognized, not as the means of contemporary communication but as investments in thought and records of perceptions and analogical understandings; literatures recognized as the contemplati...
#English #Literature #Reading #Michael Oakeshott #Andrew Bennett #Nicholas Royce #Ralph Waldo Emerson

Born stupid

Sep 15, 2018 | Category: Featured
If I've learned anything over the last year or so it's that intelligence - whatever we believe that to be[1] - is not innate. Whilst it seems hard to deny that some of our potential for becoming intel...
#intelligence #Michael Oakeshott

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