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(More customer reviews)This book goes deep, discussing how important language and narrative are, and how much the 21st century classroom needs that sense of language and narrative to create the most important learning experiences. For Waxler and Hall, working in a long line of tradition and innovation, human beings want to learn, and they want to know themselves. Literature is the best path to that possibility.
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This book is interdisciplinary in focus and centers on enlarging teachers' understanding of how reading and writing can change lives and how the language arts can contribute significantly to and change educational processes in the twenty-first century. Implicit in its argument is that although the emphasis on science and math is crucial to education in the digital edge, it remains vitally important to keep reading and writing, language and story, at the heart of the educational process. This is particularly true in a democratic society because shaping stories through human language can enhance the quality of our lives, and teach us something important about what it means to be human and vulnerable. In this sense, stories allow for self-reflection and an increased opportunity to enhance and understand emotional intelligence and human community.
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