| I am most grateful to the many kind people who have read parts or all of this book in manuscript, whose suggestions, criticisms, abuse, and corrections have made this book better than it would otherwise have been. In particular I am grateful to John Willinsky of the University of British Columbia; Wendy Strachan of the Department of English at Simon Fraser University; Richard Wilkins of the Association for Christian Teachers in Great Britain; Hunter McEwan of the University of Hawaii; Joanne Buckley of the Department of English at University of Western Ontario; Merlin Donald of the Psychology Department at Queen's University; Avril Chalmers, Jennifer Jenson, and David Hammond, Ph.D. students in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University; and Susanna Egan of the English Department at the University of British Columbia. |
| I have also benefited from comments on parts of the book from Alan Rudrum of the Department of English, Jerry Zaslove of the Institute for the Humanities, Sen Campbell and Peter Cole, Ph.D. students in the Faculty of Education, and Stephen Smith and Heesoon Bai of the Faculty of Education, all at Simon Fraser University. I am grateful to Miranda and Christopher Armstrong for permission to reprint the conversation that appears in chapter 4. |
| Eileen Mallory has typed the whole manuscript with her everyday supernatural speed, accuracy, and kindly good cheer. John Tryneski of the University of Chicago Press has been supportive and challenging, and the source of numerous insightful suggestions that have improved the book significantly; the compleat editor. I am also indebted to the editorial skills of Leslie Keros, which she applied to the manuscript with grace and wit, clarifying it considerably. One of the Press's reviewers, I discovered, was Howard Gardner of Harvard University; his incisive suggestions have had a significant effect on the manuscript, and I am pleased to be able to acknowledge his generosity and help. |
| Some paragraphs from chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 appeared in "The devel- |
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