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PP0932 - Facing the Big Questions in Teaching Purpose, Power and Learning, 2nd Edition | AU/NZ

Dr Alison St George, Prof John O'Neill, Dr Seth Brown

  • Copyright 2014
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PP0932 - Facing the Big Questions in Teaching Purpose, Power and Learning 2nd Edition by Dr Alison St George/Prof John O'Neill/Dr Seth Brown
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Overview

Thoughtful teachers constantly experiment, question and reflect on the value of what they do each day with students in classrooms and centres. Meaningful teaching calls for a complex mix of knowledge, practical skills and wisdom. Good theories and research about teaching are therefore essential parts of today’s teaching repertoire.

This second edition of Facing the Big Questions in Teaching: Purpose, Power and Learning provides an up to date, accessible, and critical introduction to educational theory and research for working teachers. Other books offer scholarly analyses but fail to scaffold abstract knowledge into the concrete lives of teachers. This book helps teachers to interweave theory, research and the puzzling challenges of practice they encounter in their everyday work.

Part One addresses the purposes of education; Part Two considers the ways in which power and ideology influence learning and teaching; and Part Three examines the relationships between teaching and learning.

Facing the Big Questions in Teaching: Purpose, Power and Learning will be of interest to readers in all education sectors: teachers, those engaged in initial teacher education, teacher educators, and postgraduate students. The editors all work at the Institute of Education, Massey University, and the contributing authors, who have a wealth of teaching and research experience, are based in universities across Aotearoa New Zealand.

This customised eBook has been created with the content you need for your studies. Due to the process used to produce this customised eBook, it doesn’t offer the same functionality available in other Cengage eBooks, including read aloud and copy text.

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Meet the Authors

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Dr Alison St George

Senior Lecturer - Institue of Education

Prof John O'Neill

Dr Seth Brown

Senior Lecturer (Institue of Education)

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Part 1: What is the purpose of education?
1. Critically understanding how the curriculum shapes teaching and learning
2. Arts education: Being awake in the world
3. Regulations, accountability and compliance vs. participation, diversity and democracy in early childhood education?
4. Teaching and learning in everyday activities and settings
5. Questions in assessment for learning and teaching
6. Te Pae Huarewa: Tribal perspectives on Māori education

Part 2: How do power and ideology influence teaching and learning?
7. Through the eye of a needle pass the multiple threads of biculturalism
8. Social justice in education.
9. Assessment: Power relations, P/political influences, and Pedagogical change
10. (Re)conceptualising gender in education: Connecting research, theory, and practice
11. Peer ecologies: The influence of peers on learning and teaching
12. Inclusive education: Addressing the challenge of equity in education

Part 3: What are the relationships between teaching and learning?
13. Understanding learning to inform teaching
14. Learning in the digital age: How are the ways in which we learn changing with the use of technologies?
15. Motivation and learning: Can I do it? Do I want to?
16. Student voice(s) as a pedagogical tool
17. Teachers’ use of research to improve practice: Why should we, how could we?

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  • ISBN-10: 0170275191
  • ISBN-13: 9780170275194
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  • ISBN-10: 0170350088
  • ISBN-13: 9780170350082
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