Social constructivist teaching affordances and constraints

This volume is a sympathetic but analytical and critical view of social constructivist teaching, considering both its affordances (what it offers to students when implemented well in situations for which it is well suited) and its constraints (enabling conditions; situations in which these condition...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Brophy, Jere E.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, UK Emerald, 2002.
SeriesAdvances in research on teaching ; v. 9.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849501507
1849501505
0762308737
ISSN1479-3687 ;
DOI10.1016/S1479-3687(2002)9
Physical Description1 online resource (384 p.) : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • Learning and teaching for understanding : the key role of collaborative knowledge building / Gordon Wells
  • Social constructivist teaching and the shaping of students' knowledge and thinking / Graham Nuthall
  • A diversity of teaching and learning paths : teaching writing in situated activity / Carol Sue Englert and Kailonnie Dunsmore
  • A highly interactive discourse structure / Alan H. Schoenfeld
  • Methods, goals, beliefs, commitments, and manner in teaching : dialogue against a calculus backdrop / Daniel Chazan and Marty Schnepp
  • Talking to understand science / Kathleen J. Roth
  • Constructing ideas about history in the classroom : the influence of competing forces on pedagogical decision making / Bruce A. VanSledright and Jennifer Hauver James
  • Westward expansion and the ten-year-old mind : teaching for historical understanding in a diverse classroom / Cynthia M. Okolo, Ralph P. Ferretti, and Charles D. MacArthur
  • Discussion / Jere Brophy.