* The 4-D Perspective is the treating of academic difficulty as pathological language deficit, learning disability, developmental delay, or auditory/linguistic dysfunction.
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Dr. Bailey offers workshops in how to use the tools and techniques of the Pegasus Method with second languaculture students which are tailored to the specific needs of the client. The Pegasus Method is one of preventive mediation rather than remedial intervention. The workshops are also designed to diminish the cultural filters between second languaculture students and their teachers. Techniques described in her book and demonstrated in the workshops include glossing, teacher-as-model-of-learning, structured webbing, sheltered interactive reading/writing/editing, mediational questioning, open-ended questioning with why/how justification, divergent thought questioning, poetry composition, and drama production.
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Virginia Hurt Bailey was born in Michigan and was reared in the foothills of the Ozarks in Missouri near the beautiful Current River. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from the highly ranked among small colleges, William Jewell College in Liberty, MO, she taught at the Window Rock Elementary School on the Navajo (Diné) Nation in Arizona for a total of twenty seven years. During that period, she also completed a Master of Arts at New Mexico State University and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in multicultural education at the University of New Mexico. After leaving Arizona with the express purpose of sharing what she had learned about working with children of the Diné, she wrote a book for other teachers of second languaculture students, Beyond the 4-D Perspective: The Pegasus Method, Ivy House, 2004. In Albuquerque, she has resumed her role as a teacher- researcher, documenting her findings as she works with Hispanic students in the public school system. Having begun to write poetry at the age of fifteen, she has self published a volume of her own poetry, Glimpses (1996) and she continues to write on a variety subjects, using numerous frames and formats of poetic expression. As a child, she dreamed of world travel in which she would communicate with people in their own languages. She has partially fulfilled that dream by visiting compadres in Mexico numerous times, touring in Europe twice, visiting China three times, and maintaining friendships for more than twenty years among French-Canadian neighbors in Nova Scotia, Canada where she has a summer home. She continued her multicultural aspirations by sharing her knowledge of Navajo philosophy and traditions with English-As-a-Second-Langauge teachers in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico and at Beijing University in China. She also made presentations on Navajo customs and culture, comparing them with those of her own heritage, of Asian Chinese and of the ancient Celts, to world congresses in Oxford, England; Washington, DC; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Dublin, Ireland; and Honolulu, Hawaii. |
Dr. Bailey wrote a series of volumes outlining changes in teaching strategies, approaches and methods; changes in pedagogical attitudes and expectations; and changes in teacher education. After writing, revising, reflecting, dialoguing, and re-writing, a summary book divided into three sections has evolved. Beyond the 4-D Perspective: The Pegasus Method was published by Ivy House in 2004 and is available by contacting Dr. Bailey directly.
About the Book To learn more about the book, click here. |
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