The interdependence of teaching and learning

The varied chapters of this book seek to capture the complexities of teaching and learning in today's schools, and they share an interest in exploring the influences of knowledge construction in the moment and over time. Teaching and learning are human processes, interrelated and dynamic. We as...

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Other Authors Griffith, Bryant (Editor), Loveless, Douglas J. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Pub., Inc., [2013]
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806613946
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-143-5
Physical Description1 online resource (xi, 232 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Teaching, learning, and the politics of education / Bryant Griffith and Douglas J. Loveless
  • Section I. Relationships and complexity
  • Chapter 1. The nature and dynamics of relationships in learning and teaching / Jeff Bloom
  • Chapter 2. Compassion, relationships, and empathetic communication: Teaching and learning in a complexity oriented classroom / Elizabeth Miller and Katherine Becker
  • Chapter 3. Reformulating relationships between teaching and learning / Kim Skinner and Bryant Griffith
  • Chapter 4. Social consciousness and social responsibility in adolescent classroom communities and relationships / Suzanne Griffin
  • Chapter 5. Curriculum theory and the ecology of learning: Understanding identity and place / Sonja Varbelow
  • Section II. Students and learning
  • Chapter 6. Coherence and chaos in teaching and learning: A conversation on the messiness of education in the digital age / Douglas J. Loveless and Bryant Griffith
  • Chapter 7. Teachers, children and philosophical thinking / Margaret E. Bérci
  • Chapter 8. The big story and the little stories: Teaching, learning, and the search for personal meaning / Jim Burns
  • Chapter 9. A critical look at culture: College students crossing violent borders / Angelica M. Fuentes
  • Section III. Teachers and teacher education
  • Chapter 10. Teaching teachers to teach for critical thinking: Enacting a pedagogy of teacher education / Nathan D. Brubaker
  • Chapter 11. Building capital during the novice years of teaching reading / Patricia Durham
  • Chapter 12. Neural pathways and educational theories / Deborah Stephens Crowder
  • Chapter 13. We grew up and became teachers: The personal reading
  • Chapter 14. Experience and curriculum understanding / Westry Whitaker
  • Chapter 15. Framing conceptions of teaching and learning to teach / Michelle Forrest
  • Contributors.