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Schooling for Life : Reclaiming the Essence of Learning.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Alexandria : Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (168 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781416601142
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Schooling for LifeDDC classification:
  • 370.15/23
LOC classification:
  • LB1590.3 -- .B753 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I: Learning to Live a Life -- Chapter 1: A Life with Standards -- Learning to Find and Solve Problems -- Common Thinking -- Changing Images of Complex Systems -- Chapter 2: A Life with Questions -- Really Knowing -- Conflict Resolution Versus Conflict Suppression -- Safe and Sound -- Chapter 3: A Life in Search of Meaning -- Teaching for Big Ideas -- Meaning: Lost and Found -- Big Ideas and Details -- Part II: Unlearning Lessons Learned in School -- Chapter 4: Dispiriting Lessons and Missing Conversations -- Questions of Climate -- Lessons Learned -- Scripts That Suppress -- Chapter 5: Showing Up and Following Directions -- Understanding the Instructional Program -- Beyond Showing Up and Following Directions -- Learning What We Need to Learn -- Chapter 6: The True Negatives of False Positives -- Focused to a Fault -- Students the Way They Are -- One of Life's Experiments -- Flexible Facts -- Part III: Lessons That Last -- Chapter 7: Uncertainties and Imperfections -- Risks, Gains, and Guarantees -- "The Big Picture" Again -- Teacher Scaffolding -- Chapter 8: Back to the Heart of the Matter -- Negotiating Curriculum -- Curriculum with Embedded Assessment -- It Takes a Child -- Chapter 9: Beginning with Understanding in Mind -- Broken Compasses -- Opening Eyes -- Finding Common Ground for Learning -- Chapter 10: Old Issues, New Images -- Tough Questions, Evolving Answers -- Structure and Efficiency -- Collective Leadership -- Dreams and Disobedience -- References and Resources -- Online Resources -- About the Author -- Related ASCD Resources -- Search this Book.
Summary: Brooks goes inside the classroom to present contrasting examples of schooling that honors the complexity of learning and life and schooling that ignores it.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I: Learning to Live a Life -- Chapter 1: A Life with Standards -- Learning to Find and Solve Problems -- Common Thinking -- Changing Images of Complex Systems -- Chapter 2: A Life with Questions -- Really Knowing -- Conflict Resolution Versus Conflict Suppression -- Safe and Sound -- Chapter 3: A Life in Search of Meaning -- Teaching for Big Ideas -- Meaning: Lost and Found -- Big Ideas and Details -- Part II: Unlearning Lessons Learned in School -- Chapter 4: Dispiriting Lessons and Missing Conversations -- Questions of Climate -- Lessons Learned -- Scripts That Suppress -- Chapter 5: Showing Up and Following Directions -- Understanding the Instructional Program -- Beyond Showing Up and Following Directions -- Learning What We Need to Learn -- Chapter 6: The True Negatives of False Positives -- Focused to a Fault -- Students the Way They Are -- One of Life's Experiments -- Flexible Facts -- Part III: Lessons That Last -- Chapter 7: Uncertainties and Imperfections -- Risks, Gains, and Guarantees -- "The Big Picture" Again -- Teacher Scaffolding -- Chapter 8: Back to the Heart of the Matter -- Negotiating Curriculum -- Curriculum with Embedded Assessment -- It Takes a Child -- Chapter 9: Beginning with Understanding in Mind -- Broken Compasses -- Opening Eyes -- Finding Common Ground for Learning -- Chapter 10: Old Issues, New Images -- Tough Questions, Evolving Answers -- Structure and Efficiency -- Collective Leadership -- Dreams and Disobedience -- References and Resources -- Online Resources -- About the Author -- Related ASCD Resources -- Search this Book.

Brooks goes inside the classroom to present contrasting examples of schooling that honors the complexity of learning and life and schooling that ignores it.

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