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Looking Back to Look Forward: Understanding the Present by Revisiting the Past: An Australian Perspective
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Cambourne, Brian; Turbill, Jan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2007
Cambourne and Turbill trace the growth, change and finally marginalisation of progressive approaches to literacy education by examining whole language philosophy in Australia from the 1960s to the present. Using a critical lens, Cambourne and Turbill describe how whole language has been positioned throughout the last nearly 50 years in terms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Educational Change, Time Perspective