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Afterword
The purpose of this Afterword is to have a personal word with prospective and practicing teachers.
My primary goal in this book has been to provide a postmethod pedagogic framework to enable you to develop the knowledge, skill, attitude, and autonomy necessary to devise for yourself a system- atic, coherent, and relevant personal theory of practice.
The postmethod pedagogic framework is founded on the para- meters of particularity, practicality, and possibility. Consistent with that conceptual foundation, I have suggested ten macrostrategies derived from theoretical, empirical, and experiential knowledge. One way you can actualize this framework is by using the suggested macrostrategies to design your own situated microstrategies. Such a strategic activity, if carried out seriously and systematically, has the potential to transform you into strategic thinkers, strategic teachers, and strategic explorers.
An Alphabet of Pedagogic Thought
What I have attempted to present in this book is no more than an alphabet of pedagogic thought. Just as the alphabet of a language allows various permutations and combinations of letters, words, and sentences, making it possible for you to construct your own text with your own ideas, the alphabet of pedagogic thought, I hope, will enable you to construct your own personal pedagogic knowl- edge to suit your local learning/teaching needs, wants, and situa- tions. Just as the creative aspect of language use enables us to pro- duce sentences never spoken before and to understand sentences