John Sylvester Lofty

Time to Write, Second Edition: the Influence of Time and Culture on Learning to Write (Revised) John Sylvester Lofty

Marc Notes: First edition, 1992. Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Foreword to the First Edition Foreword to the Second Edition Preface Acknowledgments ACT I: A Maine-Island Fishing Community in the 1980s Introduction to 1992 Edition 1. Ways with Lobsters 2. Work on the Island 3. Fay: Time on the Threshold of Writing 4. Mark: Writing in Grade Six 5. Christie: Writing and the Future 6. Timescapes for Literacy ACT II: Twenty-Five Years Later Introduction to the 2014 Edition 7. Return to the Island 8. Writing in High School: On Paper-Online 9. Time and Being in School 10. Elementary- and Middle-School Foundations 11. Shoptalk: Teachers' New Learning 12. Timescapes for Literacies Appendix 1: Approach: Mapping the Timescapes of Literacy Appendix 2: Student Writings Appendix 3: School-Wide Expectation Assignments (SWEs) Notes Bibliography IndexBiographical Note: John Sylvester Lofty is Emeritus Professor of English Education at the University of New Hampshire and the author of "Quiet Wisdom: Teachers in the United States and England Talk about Standards, Practice, and Professionalism."Publisher Marketing: To read John s work is to take on the role of a patient listener A book, like a piece of music, is scored for time, and I feel "Time to Write" is scored adagio. I believe that "Time to Write" can be read as a critique of [the] time-chopping approach to education and an argument for presence, for being fully open to experience, for being there To do good work, we must enter something like island time or what John calls existential time or what is sometimes called flow when we lose, at least temporarily, a sense of clock time. from the Foreword by Thomas Newkirk Twenty-five years ago, John Sylvester Lofty studied the influence of cultural time values on students resistance to writing instruction in an isolated Maine fishing community. For the new edition of "Time to Write," Lofty returned to the island to consider how social and educational developments in the intervening years may have affected both local culture and attitudes toward education. Lofty discovered how the island time values that previously informed students literacy learning have been transformed by outside influences, including technology, social media, and the influx of new residents from urban areas. Building on the ethnographic findings of the original study, the new edition analyzes the current conflict between the digital age time values of constant connections and instant communication, and those of school-based literacy. Lofty examines the new literacies now essential for students in a technologically connected world, both those who aspire to continue the traditional island work of lobster fishing, and for the many who now choose to pursue other careers and attend college on the mainland."