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the edifice of a postmethod pedagogy has to be constructed by you. You can hope to do that only by anchoring yourself in the social, po- litical, economic, and educational particularities that surround you and your learners, and by integrating, in an informed way, what you have read in this book with your ever-evolving and ever-widening professional and personal knowledge base. In other words, the sug- gested macrostrategies and the sample microstrategies are not meant to be transplanted; rather, they are meant to be transformed.
As you begin your long journey to transform your postmethod pedagogic thoughts, it is worthwhile to remember Antonio Machado’s poem:
Caminante, no hay camino, se hace el camino al andar (Traveler, there are no roads. The road is created as we walk it.)
What this book asks you to do is to pave your own pedagogic path as you walk it.
