Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learning: "Thinking the World Together"

by Jardine; David W.

• ISBN13: 9780805863208
• ISBN10: 0805863206
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-06-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book is about an ecological-interpretive image of "the basics." Essays detailing everyday, lived events in classroom life are presented to help readers see beneath the surface ordinariness of these events to uncover and examine the underlying complex and contested meanings they contain. Readers are invited to imagine what would happen to our understanding of teaching and learning if we stepped away from the image of basics-as-breakdown under which education labors today.

Author Biography

David W. Jardine, University of Calgary, Canada Patricia Clifford, Galileo Educational Network Association, Canada Sharon Friesen, Galileo Educational Network Association and University of Calgary, Canada

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Permission Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Introduction: An Interpretive Reading of ôBack to the Basicsö	p. 1
A Curious Plan: Managing on the Twelfth	p. 11
Cleaving with Affection: On Grain Elevators and the Cultivation of Memory	p. 31
Children's Literacy, the Biblia Pauperum, and the Wiles of Images	p. 59
ôWhatever Happens to Him Happens to Usö: Reading Coyote Reading the World	p. 67
The Transgressive Energy of Mythic Wives and Wilful Children: Old Stories for New Times	p. 79
Landscapes of Loss: On the Original Difficulties of Reading	p. 91
ôBecause It Shows Us the Way at Nightö: On Animism, Writing, and the Re-Animation of Piagetian Theory	p. 105
Meditation on Classroom Community and the Intergenerational Character of Mathematical Truth	p. 117
A Play on the Wickedness of Undone Sums, Including a Brief Mytho-Phenomenology of ôXö and Some Speculations on the Effects of Its Peculiar Absence in Elementary Mathematics Education	p. 131
Math: Teaching It Better	p. 135
ôThe Stubborn Particulars of Graceö	p. 143
Birding Lessons and the Teachings of Cicadas	p. 153
The Surroundings	p. 159
ôIn These Shoes Is the Silent Call of the Earthö: Meditations on Curriculum Integration, Conceptual Violence, and the Ecologies of Community and Place	p. 165
American Dippers and Alberta Winter Strawberries	p. 175
ôAll Beings Are Your Ancestorsö: A Bear Sutra on Ecology, Buddhism, and Pedagogy	p. 181
ôSome Say the Present Age Is Not the Time for Meditationö: Thoughts on Things Left Unsaid in Contemporary Invocations of ôTraditional learningö	p. 185
ôThe Profession Needs New Bloodö	p. 195
Scenes from Calypso's Cave: On Globalization and the Pedagogical Prospects of the Gift	p. 211
On the While of Things	p. 223
References	p. 243
Index	p. 251
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