Back to the basics of teaching and learning; thinking the world together, 2d ed.

9780805863208

Back to the basics of teaching and learning; thinking the world together, 2d ed.

Jardine, David W. et al.

Lawrence Erlbaum

2008

258 pages

$41.95

Paperback

LB14

Jardine (University of Calgary, Canada) examines the concept of "basics" in education from a hermeneutical perspective, and provides a "more generous, more rigorous, more difficult, and more pleasurable image of what 'the basics' might mean." Essays detailing everyday events in classroom life are presented to help readers see beneath the surface of these events to uncover the underlying complex and contested meanings they contain. This second edition is cast in a new direction, but remains true to the aim of the first edition: to win back the debate regarding 'the basics' from the narrow-minded version that is rampant in educational theory and practice today. This second edition (the first was published in 2003) contains new material on ecological, curricular, and hermeneutic aspects, plus new chapters on child development and on information and communication technologies. The book is of interest to pre-service and in-service K-12 teachers, and graduate students and scholars in curriculum, teaching, and learning. Co-authors Patricia Clifford and Sharon Friesen are affiliated with the Galileo Educational Network Association, Canada. Lawrence Erlbaum is an imprint of Taylor & Francis.

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