Jeanne S. Chall
Forfatter af The Academic Achievement Challenge: What Really Works in the Classroom?
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Jeanne S. Chall, Ph.D., was Emeritus Professor of Education at Harvard University Graduate School of Education until her death in 1999.
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Boxed Set~Trials and Triumphs Level 5~a Comprehension Program~ (Chall-Popp Reading Books) (1992) 3 eksemplarer
Learning to Read the Great Debate 2 eksemplarer
Qualitative Assesment of Text Difficulty: Practical Guide for Teachers and Writers (1996) 2 eksemplarer
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Chall is not an exciting writer – she’s frequently drab and workmanlike, and she repeats herself regularly – but she’s systematic and relentless in cataloguing a century’s worth of education research into how best to teach children: the creative, progressive ‘child-centered’ approach; or the traditional, disciplined ‘teacher-centered’ approach. Chall demonstrates that the latter is the clear winner in almost all reputable studies, whether in 1910 or 1999.
Chall is no ideologue – she agrees that the best teachers obviously balance elements of both approaches – but she’s clearly disturbed that so many children have been allowed to pass through so many years of schooling in the USA for so long while learning so very, very little. And since Chall was Professor of Education at Harvard, her credentials are impeccable, making it hard for liberals, teachers and other education professionals to ignore her conclusions.
Another strength of Chall’s historical breadth is that it allows her to illustrate, over and over, again how current ‘innovations’ in teaching children are just warmed-over products of Dewey and other early 20th-century progressivists. And yet Chall manages to tell this essential and damning story in just under 200 pages.
Highly, highly recommended.… (mere)