Uncommon Sense: Theoretical Practice in Language Education

by John S. Mayher

In several decades as a language educator, Mayher has been attempting to help teachers and curriculum directors conceptualize and implement progressive approaches to language education-the ideas and practices he characterizes in this book as uncommon sense. He traces his own evolution as a teacher/learner by recapturing the processes of reflection and inquiry he went through when confronted by contradictions between the way commonsense teaching and learning were supposed to work and the actual experiences of students in his classrooms.

302 pages, Paperback

First published October 23, 1989

Reviews

[rebecca]

who doesn't love john mayher? the faux santa claus education educator, i mean, not the singer-songwriter? he's a little wordy (i don't think he would mind me saying so--from one wordy lady to one wordy man), but he's wonderful, a great teacher, and has a lot of good things to say about teaching english, especially about grammar, and finally (phew--see i said it first--wordy) about the difficulties of teaching "proper grammar" when we don't all speak "properly" to begin with, and the social hierarchies inherent in that kind of "teaching."

also, who doesn't love "quotations marks?" i sure do.