There are a multitude of pedagogies
practiced in the nation's schools. In the following
analysis, it should be clear that the pedagogy of
the positive is seen a lot less often than the pedagogy
of the negative. Herein lies the essential crisis
facing our present educational systems: A Pedagogy
of Negativity is entrenched – in the public
school systems, in the state departments of educations,
in the colleges of education and teachers colleges,
and in every nook and cranny of every university
in the Nation. The major thematic notion of the
power structure of American education is that great
whispering sounds almost deafening in its overwhelming
abundance: "Don't make waves! Don't make waves!
Don't make waves!" So then, let's proceed to
make waves...
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