"Then the next question is, “To what purpose?” I can only guess… legacies? world views? identities? intellectual kinspeople and investments? other kinds of investments? Your guess is as good as mine."
Based on personal experience, thrust into the elementary school environment of balanced literacy from my previous perch as a high school English teacher, may I add the following motivation: a romantic relationship with literacy through a personal love of literature; hence, the romance vs. the reality of reading instruction and a rejection of anything remotely "unromantic" (like systematic phonics instruction).
"Then the next question is, “To what purpose?” I can only guess… legacies? world views? identities? intellectual kinspeople and investments? other kinds of investments? Your guess is as good as mine."
Based on personal experience, thrust into the elementary school environment of balanced literacy from my previous perch as a high school English teacher, may I add the following motivation: a romantic relationship with literacy through a personal love of literature; hence, the romance vs. the reality of reading instruction and a rejection of anything remotely "unromantic" (like systematic phonics instruction).
An incredibly timely and necessary contribution, Professor Goldenberg. Thank you!