Creating connections in teaching and learning / edited by Lindy Abawi, Joan M. Conway, and Robyn Henderson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abawi, Lindy, editor.

Conway, Joan M., editor.

Henderson, Robyn, editor.

Series:

Research on teaching and learning.

Research on teaching and learning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning--Social aspects.

Learning.

Teaching--Social aspects.

Teaching.

Physical Description:

xvi, 307 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the wide range of contexts in which research into creating connections in learning and teaching may take place. Creating connections can encompass making links, crossing divides, forming relationships, building frameworks, and generating new knowledge. The cognitive, cultural, social, emotional and/or physical aspects of understanding, meaning-making, motivating, acting, researching, and evaluating are explored as constituent forms of creativity in relation to such connections.From this exploration the authors identify varied connective contexts and means which include the learner, the educator, the organisation, and the relevant community. The crossing of divides, forming learner-educator relationships, bringing together diverse groups of learners, establishing networks and partnerships among educators, and establishing links between organisations and communities are all considered as connections which can be created by and within the learning and teaching dynamic.By examining the factors which help to facilitate and/or restrict the possibilities for creating connections in educational contexts, implications for and outcomes of learning and/or teaching arise from the connections created. The final chapter of this book will explicate the realisations that have emerged for educators and researchers working to create connections. These offer suggestions for future directions and enunciate what and how connections might contribute to both educational institutions and the broader society.

Contents:

Preface / Lindy Abawi, Joan M. Conway, and Robyn Henderson

Foreword / Bryan T. Connors

Acknowledgments

About the authors

Chapter 1. Exposing threads: Creating connections in teaching and learning / Robyn Henderson, Lindy Abawi, and Joan M. Conway

Section I. Connecting within school contexts

Chapter 2. Connecting early childhood educators, action research, and teaching for social justice / Karen Hawkins

Chapter 3. Inspire to connect a learning desire / Brad McLennan and Karen Peel

Chapter 4. Shared values connecting parents, teachers, and students / J. Anne Casley

Chapter 5. Engaging students through student voice: Negotiating pedagogy / Ian Fraser

Chapter 6. Relational trust as a core resource for building capacity in schools / Richard Scagliarini

Chapter 7. International teachers making connections in times of change / Marie Davis

Section II. Connecting beyond school contexts

Chapter 8. Enhancing relationships in doctoral student supervision: Shibboleths, signifiers, and strategies / P. A. Danaher and Henriette van Rensburg

Chapter 9. Productive partnerships: Cross-departmental connections in a tertiary context / Karen Noble and Robyn Henderson

Chapter 10. Addressing offshore disconnections between Chinese and western business academics and students / Joe Peng Zhou and Cec Pedersen

Chapter 11. Curriculum connections: Lessons from post-compulsory vocational education and training / Lindsay Parry, R. E. (Bobby) Harreveld and P. A. Danaher

Section III. Making meaning from lived experiences

Chapter 12. Look who's listening: Using the superaddressee for understanding connections in dialogue / Warren Midgley

Chapter 13. Effective cluster collaborations: Transformation through school and university connections / Joan M. Conway and Lindy Abawi

Chapter 14. Linking pedagogical documentation to phenomenological research / Laurie Kocher

Chapter 15. Juggling research with teaching: Building capacity in a university research team / Margaret Baguley and Helmut Geiblinger

Chapter 16. Sharing Japanese and australian culture: A case study in second language learning / Junichi Hatai and Robert D. White

Section IV. Making virtual connections

Chapter 17. A new zealand tertiary educator's online journey / C. E. Haggerty

Chapter 18. Connecting learners in virtual space: Forming learning communities / Lyn Brodie and Peter Gibbings

Chapter 19. Bridging a discipline divide through the lens of community of inquiry / Petrea Redmond and Christine McDonald

Chapter 20. Finding the right online learning connections: Comparing models in practice / Tina van Eyk

Chapter 21. Linking the threads: Creating clearer connections / Lindy Abawi, Joan M. Conway, and Robyn Henderson.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-61735-551-8

OCLC:

923176936