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Thinking Classroom Journal
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Thinking Classroom serves as an international forum of exchange among teachers, teacher educators, and others interested in promoting democratic teaching practices. The publication encourages professional development, research, and reflection. Thinking Classroom features articles that foster learner-centered teaching strategies including critical and creative thinking, active and cooperative learning, and problem solving. The journal also publishes articles about the institutional structures that support these practices.
Volume Number: 9
Frequency: 4 issues per year
Print ISSN: 1392-947Õ
Founded in 2000 as a publication of the Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking project funded by the Open Society Institute
Published as a quarterly journal from 2002 through 2005 by the International Reading Association
Published from 2006 by the RWCT (Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking) International Consortium
Copyright © 2006 by the RWCT International Consortium
Produced by Noncommercial Partnership "RWCT Center", Moscow, Russia.
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Thinking Classroom
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and Peremena
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Talking With: The Heart of Teaching
Alison Preece (Canada)
“Simplify, simplify.” H.D. Thoreau
“One ‘simplify’ would have sufficed.” —
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in response. From Let My People Go Surfing
by Yvon Chouinard
Recently, while sorting through the proliferating piles of papers that seem the inevitable accompaniment of the academic life, I came across a quotation I had tucked away, years ago, for safekeeping. It struck a chord for me then, and does again now. The words of the late Garth Boomer, a deservedly influential and much missed literacy educator from Australia, cut through the clutter of the overburdened, often frenetic, curriculum that is the daily reality for too many teachers and students to remind us of the simple things that should lie at the protected heart of teaching.
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Thinking Classroom Journal