Collaborate. Compose. Innovate. Revise. Rewind.
Berthoff, Ann. “From Dialogue to Dialectic to Dialogue.”Reclaiming the Classroom: teacher research as an agency for change. Dixie Goswami and Peter Stillman, eds. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1987, pp. 75-86.
This is an incredibly important essay, I think, because it communicates Berthoff’s identity as a teacher, and her evolution as a teacher-scholar.
Preface: “…literacy cannot be reduced to the treatment of letters and words as purely mechanical domain. We need to go beyond this rigid comprehension of literacy and begin to view it as the relationship of learners to the world, mediated by the transforming practice of this world taking place in the very general milieu in which learners travel” (10-11).
