| Goodman In addition to fostering a wholistic approach to the study of language and literacy, Goodman’s work has helped us recognize the student as an active seeker of meaning. Whereas some traditional approaches to teaching consider the student a passive recipient of knowledge, Goodman’s stance is that the student is actively seeking to create meaning and argues that the teacher has the responsibility to be in tune with the students in such a way as to be able to support that creation. |