Teachers from schools across the world believe that there is more to education than success in examinations. Many practitioners are becoming increasingly familiar with expansive education concepts such as learning dispositions, habits of mind, and expandable intelligence, and are striving to instill these valuable mind-sets into their pupils. In this groundbreaking and visionary book, acclaimed authors Lucas, Claxton and Spencer define, consolidate and reinforce this revolutionary shift.Expansive Education: Teaching learners for the real world showcases a growing number of schools that are developing methods of teaching and learning that deliberately cultivate powerful learners. Drawing on established theory as well as current research and practice, this essential resource encapsulates the best of these approaches, and demonstrates discernible links to achievement gains and learner engagement. Expansive Education offers:Radical thinking about the purpose of schools, underpinned by latest literature from the learning sciencesA critical exploration of what works in practice and an analysis of pioneering concepts that support dispositional approaches to learningA scaffolding framework that assists teachers in consistently choosing those methods most likely to create expansive learning environmentsA powerful manifesto for individual schools, clusters of schools, districts and national systems to articulate a different vision of education and a means of tracking real progress.
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This book offers a powerful manifesto for schools to articulate a different vision of education that looks beyond exam success.
Foreword from Arthur L Costa Widening goals, strengthening minds and creating enquiring teachersThe evolution of expansive educationCurrent approaches to expansive educationExpansive Pedagogy: a new model Expansive education: a theory and a call to action
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780335247554
Publisert
2013-08-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Open University Press
Vekt
367 gr
Høyde
212 mm
Bredde
149 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240
Biographical note
Bill Lucas is Co-Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester.Guy Claxton is Co-Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning, and Professor of the Learning Sciences, at the University of Winchester.
Ellen Spencer is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Real-World Learning (CRL).