Whose Agenda Is This Anyway? A Response to McKenna, Robinson, and Miller

Educational Researcher - Tập 19 Số 8 - Trang 7-11 - 1990
Carole Edelsky1
1College of Education, Division of Curriculum and Instruction, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-0911

Tóm tắt

One of McKenna, Robinson, and Miller’s major problems in proposing a research agenda for whole language is that they do not understand what whole language is. It is not an alternate methodology for language arts instruction. It is an educational paradigm complete with theoretical, philosophical, and political assumptions. As such, it has its own congruent research agenda. What prevents McKenna et al. from understanding whole language and from seeing the legitimacy of whole language-generated research is paradigm blindness. What encourages them to pretend to a role of neutral statesmen are particulars of their own paradigm (which they are also blind to) and the dominant position of that paradigm. What makes their proposal so outrageous is their presumption to speak for whole language educators and their attempt to impose their whole language-violating agenda on them while expecting those educators to cooperate in the violation.

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