Constructivist Education in an Age of Accountability

This book contrasts authentic approaches to education with classroom practices based primarily on standards external to the individuals who are supposed to learn. While other books tend to promote either a desperate scramble for meeting standards or determined resistance to neoliberal reforms, this...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Kritt, David W, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2018.
Colección:Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Section I: Introduction
  • 1. Teaching as if children matter
  • 2. The place for Dewey's constructivism of intelligent action in the American meritocracy of Thorndike
  • 3. The Confucian concept of learning
  • Section II: Engaged Learning for Understanding: STEM Education
  • 4. Pedagogic doublethink: Scientific enquiry and the construction of personal knowledge under the English National Curriculum for science
  • 5. The practice turn in learning theory and in science education
  • 6. How constructivism can boost success in STEM fields for women and minorities
  • Section III: Other Literacies
  • 7. Reconceptualizing accountability:  The ethical importance of expanding understandings of literacy and assessment for 21st century learners
  • 8. Where DAP is due:  Constructing community across difference with the Dialogue Arts Project
  • 9. A constructing perspective on games in Education
  • Section IV: Social Studies and Social Life
  • 10. Social studies, Common Core, and the threat to constructivist education
  • 11. Toward a resolution for teacher-student conflict: Crafting spaces of rigorous freedom with classroom debate
  • 12. Activity settings as context for motivation:  Reframing classroom motivation as dilemmas within and between activities
  • 13. Expeditionary learning, constructivism, and the emotional risks of open-ended inquiry
  • Section V: Implications for the future of public education
  • 14. Learning, teaching, and social justice:  Eleanor Duckworth's perspective
  • 15. How documentation of practice contributes to construction and reconstruction of an understanding of learning and teaching
  • 16. Reimagining research and practice in education
  • 17. School learning as compliance or creation.