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On Sense and Nonsense: Looking Beyond the Literacy Wars
Author(s) -
Roy Kaustuv
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.0309-8249.2005.00422.x
Subject(s) - nonsense , praxis , reciprocal , phonics , pragmatics , literacy , realisation , sociology , whole language , generative grammar , linguistics , relation (database) , epistemology , pedagogy , philosophy , teaching method , computer science , primary education , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , database , gene
This essay argues that sense depends on the circulation of nonsense. A realisation of the reciprocal relation can result in a micro‐level praxis that helps us, as educators, to free ourselves from the polarisations that have occurred in the field of literacy, such as the phonics/whole language debate, replacing the antagonism with a more generative pragmatics.