For academics, students, and educators, Smudde (communication, Illinois State U.) assembles ten essays that use Kenneth Burke's 1955 essay "Linguistic Approach to Problems of Education" (included in the volume) as a jumping off point to address the design, practice, and outcomes of today's educational programs. Communication, literature, and English scholars from the US discuss the application of his philosophy of education and how it informs education as an arena of human symbolic action, and its use to critique concepts such as cognitive motivational outcomes, student development, literacy, active learning, constructivism, problem-based learning, cooperative educational movements, learning communities, student retention, community responsibility and service learning, democracy, technology, and curriculum development. Annotation 2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
