Steve and all

You offer a solution - or a means towards - assisting students in learning more and gaining inspiration.  It's an interesting observation. However, to posit that it is *the* solution, to this reader, feels exactly like what "condescending" feels like.

You've offered a solution, an interesting one, worth consideration.  But there are others.  For me,  discussion and  dialogue come screeching to a halt when a discussant offers just the one option.  Where else can a conversation go?

Janet Isserlis 


-----Original Message-----
From: professionaldevelopment-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Steve Kaufmann
Sent: Wed 11/4/2009 2:03 AM
To: Catherine B. King; The Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List
Subject: [PD 4135] Re: When are teachers condescending?
 
I have the feeling that the reason many students appear to Catherine to be "
"deficient, uncritical, insufficiently inspired" in dealing with academic
issues, is that they have not  read very much. The solution is to
encourage them
to read more and increase their knowledge. Without this knowledge I do not
believe that a language teacher can teach them "critical thinking".

Steve Kaufmann
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