Accents: To Write This Child

Dennis Blake is a high-school history teacher with the Halton Board of
Education.

This work “borrows from hermeneutical, phenomenological and
ontological thought,” and because of this approach, it should be
reserved for experts in these fields. While Accents: To Write This Child
might evidence textbook application of hermeneutical methodology, to the
general reader this work will seem self-indulgent and pseudoprofound.
The author attempts to recreate in print the actual feelings and
thoughts formed while spending time observing an elementary-school
class. Some of the reflections are quite poetic. Unfortunately too much
of this book provides a belabored insight into the author’s thought
processes, and it is difficult for the reader to be convinced that this
is important.