EDUCATION
Articles & Resources
A series of articles on topics around reading and literature, teaching and learning, thinking and writing.
Escape Only to Reading
And our response to all of this is fairly clear, isn’t it? Stop reading according to these approaches. We are fully capable of picking up (or cueing up) a book and reading it on our own terms, for our own reasons.
Making Peace with Our Patterns: Coherence
Look at all these patterns! And now, we find their logic, their fit. We find theme.
Reading Behind-the-Scenes: Finding Pattern (Part 2)
Patterns overwhelming? Let’s take a walk down to this bus stop and talk about it . . .
Reading Behind-the-Scenes: Finding Pattern (Part 1)
We have our meaningful guesses: but what connections do we see between them all?
Unearthing Significance in What You See
Finding meaning isn’t about a right answer, but about how willing we are to suppose many.
The Simple Act of Noticing
Finding more from our reading isn’t as hard as you think. It begins with what we already know how to do.
“Education is Freedom” –
writes Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed. But not just any education.
Critical literacy becomes increasingly vital in communities polarized or isolated, globalized or caffeinated. Growing such literacy–and with it, ideals of democracy, inquiry, dialogue, tolerance, and peace–is the mission of Waywords Studio. We read the world to develop our skill with language, our efficacy in engaging it, in writing back to it. Our paths will wander, acts of essai and bricolage, connecting points for discovery.
Students grow these skills; educators open the ways; litterateurs celebrate them.
