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The Paradigm Shifts

The front cover a visual hint of what’s to come, featuring side-by-side photographs: a teenage girl sitting in the grass reading next to a photo of a more sophisticated, apparently liberated young woman, sans book and backlit by the sun, looking heavenward, arms spread like Kate Winslet’s Rose on the prow of the Titanic. A subtitle rises above both of them: Being the BOOK and Being the CHANGE (emphasis theirs). Four pages in, the authors include epigraphs from the likes of Walt Whitman, Mahatma Gandhi, Franklin Roosevelt, and Albert Einstein—and that’s just table setting; later, Wilhelm and Novak announce plans to rename the discipline of English, which they validly claim no longer “offers anything close to an adequate description” of what is taught and devote a chapter to synthesizing science, philosophy, and pedagogy “in a way no one has done before us” (21, 50). What the authors lack in page count they more than make up for in confidence and the sheer scope of their agenda.