Reviews
"This book is, by any standard, amazing. It plays, in a wonderfully hermeneutic manner, with common themes in an uncommon way.... As one wanders through the book (this is a book to journey in) one questions not only the basics but many educational slogans and shibboleths. One does indeed re-imagine the whole concept of schooling and the potential power that exists in a classroom filled with the fullness and richness of creative experience.... This is in many ways an inspiring book - a what-can-be book- but more than that, it is a book which asks the reader to deal with 'hard questions,' ones which probe the meaning of life. To read this book is to be transformed. I invite all readers to partake of that journey." William E. Doll, Louisiana State University, From the Foreword "Jardine, Clifford and Friesen juxtapose the concreteness of specific students and specific classrooms to the abstraction of theory: in that respect alone, this book exemplifies curriculum at its most poignant and sophisticated." William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia "Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learningaudaciously challenges the appropriation of the idea of basics in/of education by conservative thinkers. Much of the beauty of this book lies in its refusal to lose sight of the stubborn particulars of classroom life - real children - and sail away into the lofty clouds of theory and philosophical reflection.... No one in education can read this book and be unmoved by it, nor, perhaps, be unchanged by it." Paul Ernest, University of Exeter, "This book is, by any standard, amazing. It plays, in a wonderfully hermeneutic manner, with common themes in an uncommon way.... As one wanders through the book (this is a book to journey in) one questions not only the basics but many educational slogans and shibboleths. One does indeed re-imagine the whole concept of schooling and the potential power that exists in a classroom filled with the fullness and richness of creative experience.... This is in many ways an inspiring book - a what-can-be book- but more than that, it is a book which asks the reader to deal with 'hard questions,' ones which probe the meaning of life. To read this book is to be transformed. I invite all readers to partake of that journey." William E. Doll, Louisiana State University, From the Foreword "Jardine, Clifford and Friesen juxtapose the concreteness of specific students and specific classrooms to the abstraction of theory: in that respect alone, this book exemplifies curriculum at its most poignant and sophisticated." William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia "Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learningaudaciously challenges the appropriation of the idea of basics in/of education by conservative thinkers. Much of the beauty of this book lies in its refusal to lose sight of the stubborn particulars of classroom life - real children - and sail away into the lofty clouds of theory and philosophical reflection.... No one in education can read this book and be unmoved by it, nor, perhaps, be unchanged by it." Paul Ernest, University of Exeter, "This book is, by any standard, amazing. It plays, in a wonderfully hermeneutic manner, with common themes in an uncommon way.... As one wanders through the book (this is a book to journey in) one questions not only the basics but many educational slogans and shibboleths. One does indeed re-imagine the whole concept of schooling and the potential power that exists in a classroom filed with the fullness and richness of creative experience.... This is in many ways an inspiring book - a what-can-be book- but more than that, it is a book which asks the reader to deal with 'hard questions,' ones which probe the meaning of life. To read this book is to be transformed. I invite all readers to partake of that journey." William E. Doll, Louisiana State University, From the Foreword, "This book is, by any standard, amazing. It plays, in a wonderfully hermeneutic manner, with common themes in an uncommon way…. As one wanders through the book (this is a book to journey in) one questions not only the basics but many educational slogans and shibboleths. One does indeed re-imagine the whole concept of schooling and the potential power that exists in a classroom filled with the fullness and richness of creative experience…. This is in many ways an inspiring book a what-can-be book but more than that, it is a book which asks the reader to deal with 'hard questions,' ones which probe the meaning of life. To read this book is to be transformed. I invite all readers to partake of that journey." William E. Doll, Louisiana State University, From the Foreword "Jardine, Clifford and Friesen juxtapose the concreteness of specific students and specific classrooms to the abstraction of theory: in that respect alone, this book exemplifies curriculum at its most poignant and sophisticated." William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia "Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learningaudaciously challenges the appropriation of the idea of basics in/of education by conservative thinkers. Much of the beauty of this book lies in its refusal to lose sight of the stubborn particulars of classroom life real children and sail away into the lofty clouds of theory and philosophical reflection…. No one in education can read this book and be unmoved by it, nor, perhaps, be unchanged by it." Paul Ernest, University of Exeter, "This book is, by any standard, amazing. It plays, in a wonderfully hermeneutic manner, with common themes in an uncommon way.... As one wanders through the book (this is a book to journey in) one questions not only the basics but many educational slogans and shibboleths. One does indeed re-imagine the whole concept of schooling and the potential power that exists in a classroom filled with the fullness and richness of creative experience.... This is in many ways an inspiring book - a what-can-be book- but more than that, it is a book which asks the reader to deal with 'hard questions,' ones which probe the meaning of life. To read this book is to be transformed. I invite all readers to partake of that journey." William E. Doll, Louisiana State University, From the Foreword "Jardine, Clifford and Friesen juxtapose the concreteness of specific students and specific classrooms to the abstraction of theory: in that respect alone, this book exemplifies curriculum at its most poignant and sophisticated." William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia "Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learningaudaciously challenges the appropriation of the idea of basics in/of education by conservative thinkers. Much of the beauty of this book lies in its refusal to lose sight of the stubborn particulars of classroom life - real children - and sail away into the lofty clouds of theory and philosophical reflection.... No one in education can read this book and be unmoved by it, nor, perhaps, be unchanged by it." Paul Ernest, University of Exeter his book exemplifies curriculum at its most poignant and sophisticated." William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia "Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learningaudaciously challenges the appropriation of the idea of basics in/of education by conservative thinkers. Much of the beauty of this book lies in its refusal to lose sight of the stubborn particulars of classroom life - real children - and sail away into the lofty clouds of theory and philosophical reflection.... No one in education can read this book and be unmoved by it, nor, perhaps, be unchanged by it." Paul Ernest, University of Exeter, "This book is, by any standard, amazing. It plays, in a wonderfully hermeneutic manner, with common themes in an uncommon way.... As one wanders through the book (this is a book to journey in) one questions not only the basics but many educational slogans and shibboleths. One does indeed re-imagine the whole concept of schooling and the potential power that exists in a classroom filled with the fullness and richness of creative experience.... This is in many ways an inspiring book - a what-can-be book- but more than that, it is a book which asks the reader to deal with 'hard questions,' ones which probe the meaning of life. To read this book is to be transformed. I invite all readers to partake of that journey." William E. Doll, Louisiana State University, From the Foreword "Jardine, Clifford and Friesen juxtapose the concreteness of specific students and specific classrooms to the abstraction of theory: in that respect alone, this book exemplifies curriculum at its most poignant and sophisticated." William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia "Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learning audaciously challenges the appropriation of the idea of basics in/of education by conservative thinkers. Much of the beauty of this book lies in its refusal to lose sight of the stubborn particulars of classroom life - real children - and sail away into the lofty clouds of theory and philosophical reflection.... No one in education can read this book and be unmoved by it, nor, perhaps, be unchanged by it." Paul Ernest, University of Exeter, "This book is, by any standard, amazing. It plays, in a wonderfully hermeneutic manner, with common themes in an uncommon way.... As one wanders through the book (this is a book to journey in) one questions not only the basics but many educational slogans and shibboleths. One does indeed re-imagine the whole concept of schooling and the potential power that exists in a classroom filled with the fullness and richness of creative experience.... This is in many ways an inspiring book - a what-can-be book- but more than that, it is a book which asks the reader to deal with 'hard questions,' ones which probe the meaning of life. To read this book is to be transformed. I invite all readers to partake of that journey." William E. Doll, Louisiana State University, From the Foreword "Jardine, Clifford and Friesen juxtapose the concreteness of specific students and specific classrooms to the abstraction of theory: in that respect alone, this book exemplifies curriculum at its most poignant and sophisticated." William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia "Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learning audaciously challenges the appropriation of the idea of basics in/of education by conservative thinkers. Much of the beauty of this book lies in its refusal to lose sight of the stubborn particulars of classroom life - real children - and sail away into the lofty clouds of theory and philosophical reflection.... No one in education can read this book and be unmoved by it, nor, perhaps, be unchanged by it." Paul Ernest, University of Exeter
