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Emergent teaching : a path of creativity, significance, and transformation / Sam Crowell and David Reid-Marr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crowell, Sam.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teaching--Philosophy.
- Teaching.
- Creative teaching.
- Emergence (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (165 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013.
- Summary:
- Inspiring teachers to teach with more spontaneity and creativity within a highly constrained educational environment, this text demonstrates through descriptive stories strategies for emergent teaching. The text is consistent with the theoretical understandings and research in the complexity sciences but takes a narrative approach, giving examples through stories, myths, and parables.
- Contents:
- What is emergent teaching?
- Indra's net: non-separation as the foundation for emergent teaching
- Process from an emergent perspective: event-centric teaching
- The shape of a snake: non-linearity and emergence
- Fostering a learning state of mind: play, joy, and irreverence
- Creativity: the ceaseless imperative
- Aunt Kath serves tea: ritual and emergence
- In the world: teaching what really matters
- When the curriculum disappears: a holistic perspective
- The path to emergent teaching in classrooms and schools.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4758-0256-0
- 1-299-14142-0
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