The art and science of teaching and learning : the selected works of Ted Wragg / E.C. Wragg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wragg, E. C. (Edward Conrad)

Series:

World library of educationalists series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teaching.

Learning.

Physical Description:

x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Summary:

Ted Wragg has spent the last thirty years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in education. This book offers his key writings in one place for the first time. This internationally renowned author starts with a specially written introduction, which gives an overview of his career and conceptualizes his selection. The chapters cover: * classroom teaching and learning* training new and experienced teachers* curriculum in action* educational policy and its implementation* communicating with professional and lay people. During his thirty-year career Ted Wragg has contributed to over 40 books and 1,000 articles to the field and is regularly required to commentate on educational issues for the media.

Contents:

Becoming addicted 1

Phases and focus 2

Main areas of focus 6

Part 1 Classroom teaching and learning 7

1 First encounters 9

First encounters with a class 10

The preparatory phase 12

The observation study of first encounters 20

2 Pupil appraisals of teaching 33

The present study 34

Pupils' views 35

Interviews with pupils 38

3 Class management in the primary school 46

Strategies observed 48

Classrooms in different contexts 51

Teachers' decision-making 55

Managing children's behaviour and work 58

4 Class management during teaching practice 69

Studies of class management 71

The notion of time management 73

Class management on teaching practice 75

The pilot study 75

The main study 78

Findings of the main study 80

5 A study of student teachers in the classroom 89

The research context 89

Design of the research 89

The results of the research 96

Part 2 Training new and experienced teachers 107

6 Teacher education: a historical perspective 109

Factors influencing the course of teacher education and training 109

Primitive communities 112

Classical models 113

Teacher training in industrialised societies 117

7 What is a teaching skill? 128

Identifying and defining teaching skills 128

8 Explaining and explanations 132

The present study of teachers' explanations 134

The research instruments 137

Research findings 138

9 Explaining in the secondary school 155

Mastering subject matter 155

Explaining concepts 158

Written explanations 160

Coping strategies 161

Part 3 Curriculum in action 163

10 A curriculum for the future 165

Employment or unemployment? 165

Home and family life 168

The Four Ages 169

The knowledge explosion 172

New technology and learning 173

A curriculum for the future 175

11 Improving literacy 177

The national questionnaire 177

Organisation and the role of the language co-ordinator 178

The teaching of reading 180

Current initiatives - involving parents 183

Current initiatives - evaluating policy and changing organisation 185

12 Learning to read 188

A big sinker and an improver within the same class 190

Different patterns of improvement 192

Part 4 Educational policy and its implementation 195

13 State-approved knowledge? ten steps down the slippery slope 197

Step 1 Centrally prescribed 'broad aims' 198

Step 2 Centrally prescribed 'time allocations' 198

Step 3 An 'agreed syllabus' 198

Step 4 More 'precise objectives' 198

Step 5 Centrally prescribed objectives and 'teaching materials' 199

Step 6 Centrally prescribed objectives, teaching materials and 'strategies' 199

Step 7 Centrally prescribed objectives, materials, strategies, tested with 'test items drawn from the APU test bank' 200

Step 8 Centrally prescribed objectives, materials, strategies, test items and 'remedial programmes' 200

Step 9 Centrally prescribed objectives, materials, strategies, test items, remedial programmes and 'publication of results by school' 201

Step 10 'Dismissal of teachers' who fail to deliver 201

14 Education in the market place 203

The market philosophy 203

Ideology and the Bill 206

The consequences of the ideology 211

15 Performance-related pay 214

The performance-related pay scheme in England 214

General issues in performance-related pay 217

The future of performance-related pay 223

16 The problems of incompetence 225

Significant findings 226

Reflections on the processes observed 229

Failing or succeeding? 232

Part 5 Communicating with professional and lay people 235

17 Communicating with teachers and the public 237

Funny things happen on the way to the classroom 237

Superteach and the dinosaurs 240

Don's diary 242

'Why don't your teachers riot?' 245

A five-day week in the lions' den 247

Oh boy 249

Why Ron left the Wendy House for the toilet 253

Theory good, practice bad 254

18 Education, satire and polemic 257

Sir Keith: epilogue 257

The farce of the flashlight brigade 260

Who put the ass in assessment? 261

Descartes thinks but Clarke Disney 263

On the warpath with Spiffy 264

Digging holes in maths tests 265

Tell Sid: beware of flobbabytes 267

Take Tony Zoffis' bullets away 268.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415352215

0415352223

OCLC:

57039204