I want to clarify what I meant by referring to "the cognitive" in my last
email. I find the term "critical abstractions" to be highly useful in
discussions of content in education. Perhaps I should have said "content"
instead of 'cognitive'! It's the critical abstractions of literary
practices that Hillocks really pushes, as I infer from what I've heard,
anyway, and I think it shows in the work of everyone I know who studied
with him. Hillocks students' comments invited...
Judy
"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."
....Governor George W. Bush, Jr., 11/30/96
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