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Theory versus children.(The Literacy Wars)(Book review)
The Literacy Wars, by Ilana Snyder; Allen & Unwin, 2008, $32.95.
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of human speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and the Bible ...
--G.B. Shaw, Pygmalion
Of course, when texts are mentioned I don't just mean books (does anybody these days?) but non-print texts, advertisements, songs, sporting events, and so on. Even product packaging. I spent a very productive twenty minutes or half an hour in a Women's Literature class earlier this year with two Kleenex boxes ...
--Ray Misson, the University of Melbourne
IN WRITING The Literacy Wars, the Monash University academic Ilana Snyder makes no bones about who the enemy is and the reason she wanted the book published. In her words: "it was the Murdoch paper's crusade against contemporary approaches to literacy education that motivated me to write the book ... It is time to hold them to account."
Given the parlous state of English teaching in our universities and our teacher training institutions, the public might be forgiven for thinking the Fourth Estate has every reason to hold those responsible to account--not so Dr Snyder and like-minded groups like the Australian Association for the Teaching of English.
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