Reading with Our Brains (original) (raw)

"I truly believe that the format, content, and structure of this book is so dramatically different from the traditional genre of books about reading research and theory building that it has the potential to bring about a Kuhnian revolution in reading research and theory development on a number of levels.. .. Instead of tediously presenting research findings and interpreting what they mean for reading educators, this book leads its readers on a journey which subtly persuades them to explore and examine their own and others' reading behavior in ways that induce deeper understandings of the complexity of human symbolic behavior in general and the act of reading in particular.. .. I'm hopeful that this book will mark the beginning of a movement to rework reading and learning to read using the tools and perspectives from a wide range of more successful scientific disciplines." Brian Cambourne, University of Wollongong, Australia, From the Foreword "Exciting and timely for the field.. .. This book guides the reader in exploring the processes of reading in ways that challenge common sense views and that have important pedagogical consequences. I love the dialogue. It sounds genuine and creates a kind of conversation space. The book is clearly focused on an important topic-it follows nicely the rule of keeping the main idea the main idea." James Hoffman, University of Texas at Austin, USA "A significant contribution to the field via a powerful theme, 'The Grand Illusion,' explored in a fashion that is multi-perspectival and multidisciplinary. Using a combination of expertise (language, psychology, physiology), the book makes a unique contribution pulling together research findings from various sources, fields of studies, and windows for observing the acts of reading (retellings, miscue analysis, eye movement, text analysis, and linguistic corpus). It provides a more coherent and provocative discussion than some of the government-commissioned/sponsored reports and reviews included in edited handbook volumes on reading."