Books by Patrick L. Courts

He shuns overemphasis on methods and offers an alternative approach firmly grounded in theory and aimed at empowering teachers and students. Courts begins with a discussion of liberatory pedagogy, drawing from whole language theory, the social semiotics of Halliday, reader-response theory, and the ideas of Heidegger and Derrida.

As part of the American school reform movement, administrators are searching for ways of measuring students' skills and progress within the system. The authors propose a new compact among teachers and students as they take mutual responsibility for the learning process and changing curriculum.