Back to the basics of teaching and learning : thinking the world together / David W. Jardine, Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jardine, David William, 1950-

Contributor:

Clifford, Patricia (Patricia Anne)

Friesen, Sharon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Teaching.

Learning.

Physical Description:

xv, 237 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003.

Summary:

This book is about an ecological-interpretive image of "the basics" in teaching and learning. The authors explore the challenges of an interpretive approach in relation to child development, mathematics education, science curriculum, teacher education, n

Contents:

1. A Curious Plan: Managing on the Twelfth / Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen 15

2. "Whatever Happens to Him Happens to Us": Reading Coyote Reading the World / Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen, David W. Jardine 41

3. The Profession Needs New Blood / David W. Jardine 55

4. Relentless Writing and the Death of Memory in Elementary Education / David W. Jardine, Pam Rinehart 73

5. Hard Fun: Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century / Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen 89

6. Meditations on Classroom Community and the Intergenerational Character of Mathematical Truth / Sharon Friesen, Patricia Clifford, David W. Jardine 115

7. A Play on the Wickedness of Undone Sums, Including a Brief Mytho-Phenomenology of "X" and Some Speculations on the Effects of Its Peculiar Absence in Elementary Mathematics Education / David W. Jardine, Sharon Friesen 133

Preamble 8 137

8. "Because It Shows Us the Way at Night": On Animism, Writing, and the Re-Animation of Piagetian Theory / David W. Jardine 143

9. The Transgressive Energy of Mythic Wives and Wilful Children: Old Stories for New Times / Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen 163

10. Landscapes of Loss: On the Original Difficulty of Reading and Interpretive Research / Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen 179

11. "In These Shoes Is the Silent Call of the Earth": Meditations on Curriculum Integration, Conceptual Violence, and the Ecologies of Community and Place / David W. Jardine, Annette LaGrange, Beth Everest 197

12. Scenes From Calypso's Cave: On Globalization and the Pedagogical Prospects of the Gift / David W. Jardine, Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen 211.

Notes:

Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and indexes.

ISBN:

0805839801

OCLC:

50205710