> Point taken. But why is it, I wonder, that the "teaching"
> approach to joint bookreading spills over into the parent-child
> interactions rather than the "parenting" approach spilling over
> into the classroom?
Well, I wonder whether it doesn't. Didn't. Where did reading aloud
to kids in school come from? I don't know enough about early
practice in schools to be sure, but somehow I can't picture those
headmasters in British public schools cuddling up with a group of six
year olds and reading a story.
The kind of practices I associate with joint bookreading don't seem
to me to have their roots in any traditional pedagogy I'm aware of.
On the other hand, I don't know _where_ they came from, and it just
occurs to me that I should. Do others?
-- Russ
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