Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum in Secondary Schools: A Reader

by Hutchinson,Steven

• ISBN13: 9780415260671
• ISBN10: 0415260671
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-10-11
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

This generic book heads the Open University's flexible PGCE series of 'readers'. Through this new series, student teachers and practising teachers looking to update their knowledge, will be introduced to the big issues of their subject.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	x
List of abbreviations	xi
Sources	xiii
Foreword	xv
Preface	xvii
Introduction	xviii
SECTION 1 Learners and learning	1	(46)
Learning perspectives on the teachers' task	3	(7)
Bob Moon
Tenets to understand a cultural perspective on learning	10	(15)
Jerome Bruner
Ability, intelligence and attainment in secondary schools	25	(6)
Bob Moon
Jill Bourne
How children learn --- implications for practice	31	(7)
Neville Bennett
Elisabeth Dunne
What do new views of knowledge and thinking have to say about research on teacher learning?	38	(9)
Ralph T. Putnam
Hilda Borko
SECTION 2 Teachers and teaching	47	(70)
Teacher effectiveness	49	(15)
Hay McBer Report
What do we know about effective pedagogy?	64	(6)
Judith Ireson
Peter Mortimore
Susan Hallam
New understandings of teachers' pedagogic knowledge	70	(10)
Frank Banks
Jenny Leach
Bob Moon
`He's such a nice man, but he's so boring, you have to really make a conscious effort to learn': the views of Gemma, Daniel and their contemporaries on teacher quality and effectiveness	80	(11)
M. Younger
M. Warrington
The teacher---student relationship in secondary school: insights from excluded students	91	(16)
Eva Pomeroy
Teachers for the comprehensive idea	107	(10)
Ted Wragg
SECTION 3 Classrooms	117	(72)
Life in classrooms	119	(5)
Philip Jackson
Has classroom teaching served its day?	124	(18)
Donald McIntyre
Teaching, learning and the digital age	142	(23)
Jenny Leach
Grouping by ability --- what research tells us	165	(4)
Laura Sukhnandan
Barbara Lee
How is language used as a medium for classroom education?	169	(20)
Neil Mercer
SECTION 4 Curriculum	189	(36)
Understanding the context of curriculum	191	(3)
Bob Moon
The origins of the National Curriculum	194	(10)
Bob Moon
Planning and implementing change	204	(4)
Michael Fullan
Assessment: a changing practice	208	(6)
Sally Brown
Assessment and gender	214	(11)
Patricia Murphy
SECTION 5 Schools	225	(76)
The positive effects of schooling	227	(26)
Peter Mortimore
Transitions between primary and secondary schools	253	(10)
Hilary Burgess
The intelligent school	263	(6)
John MacBeath
Equal opportunities and educational performance: gender, race and class	269	(10)
Madeleine Arnot
Home---school links	279	(13)
Sally Tomlinson
Policy alternatives to exclusion from school	292	(9)
Pamela Hunn
Gwynedd Lloyd
Mairi Ann Cullen
Index	301