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Teaching: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities
How does a teacher deal with a student’s challenging behaviour in the classroom? Is it fair to adopt information and communication technologies that favour students who have access to sophisticated devices such as tablets in their own home? How, during the professional experience, is an education student to act when their beliefs about learning are not congruent with those of the supervising teacher? Should students be grouped in terms of their ability? These and many more issues arise daily in our early childhood, primary and secondary learning environments. Teaching, 7e takes a holistic approach to classroom teaching and learning. Using student-friendly language it considers the complexi...
Reflective Practice in Education and Social Work
This book offers unique interdisciplinary insights into developing connections between reflective practice and employability particularly through the lenses of the education and social work professions. It recognises the various meanings that can be applied to the notion of reflection and examines the challenges of using reflective practice in the workplace. The chapters explore the tensions that arise from preparing professionals to be agents of change and concerned with social justice and equity. Further, the book provides much needed perspective on how diverse positions can be identified and leveraged and shared meanings negotiated in the creation of meaningful professional learning resources for early career teachers and social workers and across the career continuum. Bringing together contributions from internationally renowned scholars, Reflective Practice in Education and Social Work is essential reading for early career and experienced professionals in education and social work, academics and practitioners seeking further professional development in reflective practice.
Drama-Rich Pedagogy and Becoming Deeply Literate
In this short monograph, Robyn Ewing offers us a comprehensive perspectiveon how learning through embodiment results in greater understanding. Asshe points out through her extensive research that spans the last thirtyyears, we learn best when we are given the opportunities, time and meansto process our experiences through a drama-rich pedagogy.
English and Literacies
English and Literacies introduces pre-service teachers to the many facets of literacies and English education for primary students.
School Drama Book
School Drama is a professional learning program for primary school teachers, which focuses on the power of using drama and literature to improve English and literacy in young learners. School Drama was developed by the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) in 2009, in partnership with The University of Sydney. It has been acclaimed by Australian and international critics, and is now a cornerstone of the STCs Education program. This book is a comprehensive School Drama resource. It includes: A summary of how drama and literature enhance literacy; An explanation of the School Drama approach and methodology; Learning outcomes from the School Drama program so far; Exploration of the art and pedagogy of d...
Language and Literacy Development in Early Childhood
This book provides pre-service and practising teachers with an integrated approach to language and literacy learning in early childhood. Written by leading academics in the field, it explores how children learn to talk, play using language, become literate and make meaning - from birth through to the pre-school years. Emphasising the importance of imagination and the arts in language learning, this book addresses a wide range of contemporary issues, highlights the impact of diverse socioeconomic, language and cultural backgrounds on young children's language and literacy development, and shows how early childhood teachers can effectively partner with parents and caregivers to help children learn through and about language. Case studies, interviews, reflective questions, clear links to the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum, and a rich array of practical and creative activities for use in early childhood environments help students connect theory and current research to practice.
Teaching
TEACHING: CHALLENGES AND DILEMMAS helps to answer essential questions such as how does one learn to become a teacher? How does one learn to be patient, analytical, inspirational, resourceful, creative, hopeful, ethical and courageous? How does one learn when to hold on and when to hold back, to do and undo? How does one learn that choosing to become a teacher is choosing a profession that is endlessly gratifying, but always incomplete? The text has a logical four part structure. Section one unfolds the nature of teachers' work, including ways in which it has been historically constructed and the ways in which it has changed. Section two explores learning, including learner diversity, the nat...
Creative Arts in the Lives of Young Children
Creative Arts in the Lives of Young Children draws together two essential strands in contemporary educational discourse: the importance of high quality care and education in the early years, and the central role that imaginative arts experiences can and should play in the lives of all young children. A number of underlying themes are highlighted throughout the book. All are related to the potential for quality arts experiences in the early years to achieve transformational outcomes for children. These include: the enhancement and development of children's creativity and imagination * the encouragement of children's innate problem solving abilities * the opportunity to experience a diversity ...
Innovations in Teacher Education
This book offers a comprehensive, "social constructivist" approach to preservice education. Written in a clear, accessible style, it presents key principles of teacher education and concrete examples from eight successful programs in Australia, Canada, and the United States. It extends constructivism beyond Piaget and Vygotsky to more recent theorists such as Barthes and Derrida, indicating how such an approach can lead to engaging, effective education. Clive Beck and Clare Kosnik advocate an approach to teacher education that is highly original, linking integration, community components, and inquiry to a degree not commonly found in preservice programs, and they show in detail how to implement these elements.
Curriculum & Assessment
There are a number of different approaches to the study of curriculum, assessment and evaluation. In Curriculum and Assessment all of these approaches are investigated through their interrelationships or common 'storylines'. Using this method, the book explains what curriculum means toteachers and students, as part of how and why learning happens, and in relation to the policies and assessment practices that arise from it. In view of the current reforms to curricula, and plans for the Australian National Curriculum, this is a timely text which provides students with theopportunity to reflect upon their teaching skills in the context of the broader implications of curriculum for educators and policymakers alike.
