Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to James Moffett, born May 23, 1929.
James Moffett was an American teacher of English, author, and theorist of the teaching and learning of language arts and especially writing.
James Moffett was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1929. After growing up in the southern US, he spent his high school years in Toledo, Ohio. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University. Drafted to serve in the military for two years shortly after graduation, and after a stint as a teaching assistant for S. I. Hayakawa, he thereafter taught at Philips Exeter Academy for ten years. He then took a faculty position in Harvard’s Graduate school of Education for three years while he worked on his first major work Teaching the Universe of Discourse.
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