Learning and Teaching Where Worldviews Meet

by Claxton, Guy; Pollard, Andrew; Sutherland, Rosamund

• ISBN13: 9781858562483
• ISBN10: 1858562481
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

This book examines how competing or dissonant worldviews affect the way people learn and organizations change. The cultures of managerialism and performance, the rhetoric of lifelong learning, and the challenges of globalization and international competition create pressures which are unlikely to abate. In every educational sector, teachers and students have to cope with new, complex and often conflicting values and demands. The contributors consider these complex issues in light of national cultures, professional cultures, disciplinary cultures, formal and informal cultures and of cultures past, present and future. They draw on multiple disciplines and discourses - sociocultural studies and cultural psychology, sociology, organizational development, policy studies, management theory, political and economic theory - so as to develop an approach to the complexity of learning today that will enable us to maximize the quality of educational provision for the 21st century. "Learning and Teaching where Worldviews Meet" will appeal broadly to educationalists in every discipline and sector and to those working in cultural studies. James Wertsch, Visiting Professor from the University of Washington, provides the Afterword.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Fishing in the fog: conceptualising learning at the confluence of cultures	p. 1
National Cultures
Global connectedness and local diversity: forging 'new' literacies at the point of confluence	p. 19
Culture, context and policy: comparing learners in three European counties	p. 35
Overseas students and their tutors at the confluence of cultures	p. 59
Transfer and transformation: developing mentoring in Malaysia	p. 71
Professional and Disciplinary Cultures
Management and teaching: two cultures or one?	p. 89
Crossing an ethical divide: the construction of professional ethics for counsellors and educators	p. 105
The development of a profession: reframing the role of educational psychologists within the context of organisational culture	p. 119
Same/different: establishing a mathematical classroom culture at the transition from primary to secondary school	p. 139
The textbook as cultural artefact: reproducing the culture of science	p. 153
Formal and Informal Cultures
Homework: Learning at the interface between home and school cultures	p. 179
Parental strategies at the intersection of home and school cultures: the mediation of formal assessment	p. 193
'Edutainment' software: a site for cultures in conflict?	p. 207
Cultures Past and Present
Conceptions, contentions and connections: how teachers read and understand different genres of educational research	p. 231
Supporting the learner teacher in changing higher education	p. 245
Researching assessment cultures, re-searching our selves	p. 255
Dimensions of Culture-Clash	p. 273
Index	p. 283
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