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This 3 page paper explains why the title “The Beat of a Different Drummer” is perfect for a book of essays about educator John I. Goodlad. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Sirotnik and Soder might have chosen the title they did. Discussion The immediate response to the prompt is that the title is meant to suggest that the subject of the
book, John I. Goodlad, is somehow doing something different from other educators. Howard Gardner, who is a Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education says that the
essays in the book provide a solid overview of the issues that face educators now, as well as in the past and the future (Gardner, 1999). He also notes that
Goodlad emerges "as the American educator who has today inherited the mantle of John Dewey" (Gardner, 1999). That leads to two paths of inquiry: what precisely did John Goodlad say,
and how does he relate to John Dewey? That last is easy: Dewey is widely regarded as the most influential educator in American history. Diana Natalicio, President of the
University of Texas at El Paso, writes that Goodlad believes that public education is the "cornerstone of our democracy" (1999). In addition, "his positive approach to educational reforms, serve as
refreshing counterpoints to the strident criticism that schools, teachers, and teacher education programs have increasingly been subjected" (Natalicio, 1999). Clearly, then, we need to look at John Goodlads ideas and
see if he really is a "different drummer." For centuries, the educational model has been teacher-centered. The instructor stands and lectures while the students take notes. This, says Goodlad, has
to change: "Eighty-eight percent of high school teaching time in the ... classes that ... I visited... was spent in frontal teaching-telling, questioning, lecturing, with the students passively sitting, often
with their eyes glazed over and their minds somewhere else" (Novak, 1993 - quoting Goodlad). In addition, curricula are standard: certain subjects are taught at certain times, when it is
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