Seidenberg's Recent "Informal Talk on Reading Education"

University of Wisconsin Psychology Professor [Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab] Mark Seidenberg recently gave a lecture on reading education at the University Club:

Whole Language was a massive, uncontrolled experiment, with millions of children as unwitting subjects.

How it's done: Someone gets an idea

• Often a Guru. Many Gurus in reading instruction.
• Guru has brilliant insight about how children learn, how to teach reading - Their own personal theory
• The idea may be personally promoted by the guru, with direct appeals to teachers
• The idea is implemented on a vast scale, based on intuitions that it is good.

860K PDF Version of the lecture.

Posted by Ruth Robarts at October 14, 2005 3:30 PM
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