Difference Making at the Heart of Learning

Difference Making at the Heart of Learning

Author: Tom Vander Ark

Publisher: Corwin Press

ISBN: 9781071814833

Category: Education

Page: 136

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Your students will change the world! Today’s learners face a complex future, where multilayered technological and societal issues will require new ways of problem-solving. This inspirational yet practical guide helps educators, counselors, and youth-development leaders build on students’ talents and interests to develop their desire for a better world, entrepreneurial mindset and personal leadership skills—so they can make a difference to their families, their communities, and society. Features include: ? New learning priorities centered around difference making ? A framework based on the 25 most important issues of our time ? Examples and case studies from a diverse range of projects, people, and places

Relational Psychoanalysis at the Heart of Teaching and Learning

Relational Psychoanalysis at the Heart of Teaching and Learning

Author: Lissa D’Amour

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351599252

Category: Education

Page: 302

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This book introduces the insights of contemporary relational psychoanalysis to educational thought and uses them as the foundation for a comprehensive model for understanding and informing teaching and learning practice. The model integrates what we know about conscious thought, motivation, and the physical body and translates these understandings in ways that are meaningful and relevant to the circumstances of practicing teachers, school leaders, and teachers of teachers. It will be of great interest to them and to those educational scholars whose attentions turn to the exigencies of the current era. Echoing calls for inclusivity, the book stands against admonishing anyone on the right way to be a person. Instead it emphasises understanding and, in understanding, practicing well. Readers will gain a deeper appreciation of the nature of sense-making and awareness and of the practical implications of cognition as embodied, life forms as non-linear dynamic systems, and relationships as core to human development and classroom life. It was Einstein who, in a letter to Freud, once asked for an educational solution to the menace of war. Today’s urgencies – of nations divided, diminishing planetary resources, and certain ecological disasters – press for wisdom beyond our collective habit. Thankfully the once-elusive mysteries of life, mind, learning, and learning systems now yield in ways to help shape answers to Einstein’s question. Relational psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, educational theorists, teachers, and those who work with them will be intrigued by the convergences and heartened at the possibilities.

The Phenomenological Heart of Teaching and Learning

The Phenomenological Heart of Teaching and Learning

Author: Katherine Greenberg

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351245883

Category: Education

Page: 212

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This book presents a carefully constructed framework for teaching and learning informed by philosophical and empirical foundations of phenomenology. Based on an extensive, multi-dimensional case study focused around the ‘lived experience’ of college-level teaching preparation, classroom interaction, and students’ reflections, this book presents evidence for the claim that the worldviews of both teachers and learners affect the way that they present and receive knowledge. By taking a unique phenomenological approach to pedagogical issues in higher education, this volume demonstrates that a truly transformative learning process relies on an engagement between consciousness and the world it ‘intends’.

Placing Students at the Heart of Creative Learning

Placing Students at the Heart of Creative Learning

Author: Nick Owen

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136733680

Category: Education

Page: 151

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""Developing a Creative Curriculum"" shows teachers how to introduce creativity to what is often seen as a prescriptive curriculum, and addresses the tensions between innovation and the requirement to follow the curriculum.

Service at the Heart of Learning

Service at the Heart of Learning

Author: Emily Cousins

Publisher:

ISBN: STANFORD:36105110096992

Category: Active learning

Page: 308

View: 495

"One of the few books on service-learning written by K-12 teachers, the volume explores the role of service in learning expeditions. With vivid detail and stories from the classroom, teachers discuss the way service deepens students' academic achievement and character development." Eighteen expeditions are organized into two sections: Science, Humanities

Drama and English at the Heart of the Curriculum

Drama and English at the Heart of the Curriculum

Author: Joe Winston

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136600418

Category: Education

Page: 160

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Written specifically for primary teachers and trainees who wish to develop their teaching skills in English and drama, this book offers practical guidance on model drama and English teaching techniques, approaches to assessment, and examples of cross-curricular links. Teachers and students will benefit from the wide range of techniques covered in this book.

The New Significance of Learning

The New Significance of Learning

Author: Pádraig Hogan

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135193225

Category: Education

Page: 208

View: 465

Should education be understood mainly as a practice in its own right, or is it essentially a subordinate affair to be shaped and controlled by a society’s powers-that-be? What difference does it make if students are chiefly viewed as recipients of a set of skills and knowledge, or as active participants in their own learning? Does education have a responsibility in cultivating humanity’s maturity, or are its purposes to be effectively matched to the functional requirements of a globalized age? The New Significance of Learning explores these and other high-stakes questions. It challenges hierarchical and custodial conceptions of education that have been inherited as the ‘natural order’ of things. It discloses a more original and imaginative understanding of educational practice, illustrating this understanding with frequent practical examples. Among the merits highlighted by this approach are: a recognition that education is first and foremost an invitation to join a renewed experience of quest and disclosure; a realisation that taking up and pursuing such an invitation is a basic right, as distinct from a privilege to be bestowed or withheld; an awareness of the decisive importance of specific kinds relationships in practices of teaching and learning; an emphasis on the human qualities as well as the intellectual achievements nourished by dedicated communities of learning; an acknowledgement of partiality – of incompleteness and bias – in even the best of humankind’s learning efforts; the emergence of a distinctive ethical orientation for education as a practice in its own right.

On Education, Formation, Citizenship and the Lost Purpose of Learning

On Education, Formation, Citizenship and the Lost Purpose of Learning

Author: Joseph Clair

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN: 9781501326172

Category: Religion

Page: 144

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Reading Augustine presents concise, personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religion scholars. The looming crisis in higher education appears to be a matter of soaring costs and crushing student debt, but the problem is actually much deeper. It is a crisis of soul; a question of the very purpose of learning and the type of people that our educational system produces. Today, in the age of academic hyper-specialization and professional knowledge, the moral and spiritual purposes of learning have been eclipsed by a shallow view of career and success. On Education, Formation, Citizenship, and the Lost Purpose of Learning turns to the influential figure Augustine of Hippo to explore how he saved the liberal arts at the end of the Roman Empire and how his inspiring vision can do the same for higher education today. It offers a roadmap for reviving the soul of education – presenting concrete ways that the intellectual practices and economic enterprise of learning can lead once more to a fulfilled life of knowing God and loving others.

Alfred North Whitehead on Learning and Education

Alfred North Whitehead on Learning and Education

Author: Franz G. Riffert

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press

ISBN: 9781904303572

Category: Education

Page: 444

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"In this book a selection of 15 papers explores Whitehead's educational ideas which are based on his radical process approach. Following the Introduction which presents Whitehead's criticism of traditional education and the false psychology which it is based on, the book is divided into two major parts. The first part deals with Whitehead's philosophically inspired alternative theoretical framework for learning and education. Special focus is layed on the concept of the learning process which according to Whitehead is essentially cyclic in nature. In the second part it is shown how Whitehead's ideas can profitably be applied to different sub-domains within education: management education, college education and evaluation."--http://www.cambridgescholarspress.com.

The Contemplative Mind in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

The Contemplative Mind in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Author: Patricia Owen-Smith

Publisher: Indiana University Press

ISBN: 9780253033352

Category: Education

Page: 162

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In The Contemplative Mind in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Patricia Owen-Smith considers how contemplative practices may find a place in higher education. By creating a bridge between contemplative practices and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Owen-Smith brings awareness of contemplative pedagogy to a larger audience of college instructors, while also offering classroom models and outlining the ongoing challenges of both defining these practices and assessing their impact in education. Ultimately, Owen-Smith asserts that such practices have the potential to deepen a student’s development and understanding of the self as a learner, knower, and citizen of the world.