Description
| Product ID: | 9780335212590 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Learning without Limits |
| Authors: | Author: Annabelle Dixon, Susan Hart, Mary Jane Drummond, Donald McIntyre |
| Page Count: | 296 |
| Subjects: | Educational psychology, Educational psychology, Educational administration and organization, Organization & management of education |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Explores the different ways of teaching that are free from determinist beliefs about ability. Drawing on a research project at the University of Cambridge, this book features 9 case studies that describe how teachers have developed alternative practices despite considerable pressure on them and on their schools and classrooms. "The style and language used by the authors make the book readable and therefore a book that practising teachers can actively use as a guide to improve their practice ...it is amply demonstrated that teaching can and should be an activity whose primary focus is to enhance students'' learning capacity and not limit it." Journal of Inservice Education
The authors analyze these case studies and identify the key concept of transformability as a distinguishing feature of these teachers'' approach. They construct a model of pedagogy based on transformability: the mind-set that children''s futures as learners are not pre-determined, and that teachers can help to strengthen and ultimately transform young people''s capacity to learn through the choices they make. The book shows how transformability-based teaching can play a central role in constructing an alternative improvement agenda. This book will inspire teachers, student teachers, lecturers and policy makers, as well as everyone who has a stake in how contemporary education and practice affect children''s future lives and life chances. |
| Imprint Name: | Open University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Open University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2004-03-16 |
