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• W123641906 abstract "THE TRAGICOMEDY OF PUBLIC EDUCATION, LAUGHING AND CRYING, THINKING AND FIXING. James M. Kauffman. (2010). Verona, WI: Full Court Press, Pp. 222, Pb, npi. Reviewed by J. Harold Ellens. Time Magazine once claimed that Peter DeVries was the most humorous writer on either side of the Atlantic. DeVries' numerous, hilarious, and somewhat racy novels provided the last half of the 20th century with a Mark Twain kind of comic critique of American culture. His volumes also plumbed the depths of personal and cultural tragedy, especially his poignant novel, The Blood of the Iamb. His well honed barbs punctured many pompous cultural and literary balloons representing all aspects of our society's life; and he knew how near each other are the comedy and tragedy in our pilgrimage. DeVries was invited in the early 1980s by Professor John Timmerman to lecture on Humor and Tragedy at Calvin College, the Alma Mater of both of them. DeVries said that comedy and tragedy are neighbors. They need each other. Neither can exist without the other. They live in the same human village. They meet at the same well - the human tear duct! Most humor makes us laugh because it is a story about potential tragedy in which the victim, with whom we identify in our universal pain, gets clean away by some remarkable twist of language or of fate. Pat and Mike visited the Empire State Building. On the 76th floor Pat looked for a men's room. He pried open a door which unfortunately was the elevator shaft. After a long Whoosh and a distant thud, an anemic voice sounded up the shaft, Mike, watch out for that first step. James M. Kauffman's new volume, The Tragicomedy of Public Education, is a thoughtful and highly readable commentary on American schools that digs deeply into the core system of what is wrong and what is right about educational policy and practice in our country. His enjoinder from beginning to end is that we look carefully and scientifically at our educational system, particularly K-1 2, discern the evidence from the sometimes gratifying and often woeful outcome studies, and laugh a while at how ridiculous is our policy, planning, and praxis in the nurture and stimulation of our American children's precious minds. After we have laughed the pompous buffoons of political policy and educational theorizing out of business, then we should cry for a while at how they have abused and shortchanged the tender persons of our little people in their most vulnerable and potentially resourceful years of learning and growing. Kauffman is sure that when we have laLighed enough about enough of the crazy notions that have been floated for educating children in the last half century, and then have cried enough about them, we will be equipped to do something serious about making American education better for children who struggle with the basics, children who excel brilliantly no matter what, and special needs children. Each of them has a different potential, a different need, and a different hope. Kauffman expresses gently his and our suppressed rage at the waste of money, talent, teacher energy, and student lives that superficial ideas and shot from the hip policies about education produce. Kauffman was educated at the University of Kansas, taught elementary school for many years, and for the last three decades until his recent retirement taught teachers how to teach as a Professor of Education at the University of Virginia. He has written numerous books on effective educational methods and models. He served as Chair of the Special Education Department, as Associate Dean for Research, and as an executive for many of the leading professional organizations in his field. His book is divided into two parts: Laughing and Crying, and Thinking and Fixing. In each are six chapters. Part I is about Public Education as a Tragicomedy, Truth and Truthiness in Education, The Art of Poor Thinking, Slogans and Trite Phrases, Thinking Gone off the Tracks in Other Ways, and The Consequences of Poor Thinking. …" @default.
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