pre/pro
Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 7 Jan 1998 08:39:32 -0800 (PST)
Don-- The prescription/proscription distinction seems helpful, but
does that solve the problem I began with (proximally speaking). 90%
of classroom run the recitation script as the norm with the lot that
it carries with it as a cultural form. A lot of people on this list
seem to feel it is not an optimal educational form and push for alternatives
of a child/activity-centered variety. Presumably they do so on the
grounds that the latter are, by some criteria, "better." But on what
grounds does one from the betterness?
With what bracketing or in what framework?
mike