The Black Box of Schooling A Cultural History of the Classroom

• Other Authors: Braster, Sjaak (Editor), Grosvenor, Ian (Editor), del Mar del Pozo Andrés, María (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Brussels P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales 2012
• Edition: 1st, New ed.
• Subjects: klima školy; školní psychologie; kultura školy; učitel a žák; školní třídy; school environment; school psychology; school culture; teacher and learner; school classes; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783035261127
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (330 stran)

This book is about the classroom, the most important meeting place for teachers and pupils in an education building. Our knowledge, however, about what happens inside this space is limited. In many respects the classroom is still the black box of the educational system. To open up this box, this v...

Table of Contents:

• Contents: Sjaak Braster/Ian Grosvenor/María del Mar del Pozo Andrés: Opening the Black Box of Schooling. Methods, Meanings and Mysteries - Sjaak Braster: Educational Change and Dutch Classroom Photographs. A Qualitative and Quantitative analysis - Ian Grosvenor: «To Act on the Minds of Children». Paintings into Schools and English Education - Jeremy Howard: Classroom Genres. Aspects, Values and Interpretations of Painted School Interior Scenes - Ana Badanelli/Kira Mahamud: Peeking into the Classroom of Post Civil War Spain. Children's Classroom Work, Routines and Dynamics - María del Mar del Pozo Andrés/Teresa Rabazas: Classroom Cultures. Researching the Pioneer Ethnographical Research (Madrid, 1950-1970) - Susannah Wright: Inside the Black Box? Log Books from Late 19th and Early 20th Century English Elementary Schools - Antonio Viñao: Teachers' Egodocuments as a Source of Classroom History. The Case of Autobiographies, Memoirs and Diaries - Arianne Baggerman: Pandora's Box. Classrooms and Equipment in the Memory of Autobiographers - Theo Veld: Oral History and the Black Box of the Classroom. A Personal Journey - Alexander Koutamanis/Yolanda Majewski-Steijns: An Architectural View of the Classroom - Catherine Burke: «Education through Art». The School Mural as Extended Architecture - Frederik Herman/Angelo Van Gorp/Frank Simon/Marc Depaepe: The Organic Growth of the Decroly School in Brussels. From Villa to School, from Living Room to Classroom - Jacques Dane/Sarah-Jane Earle/Tijs van Ruiten: The Material Classroom.