Children's Learning in Schools

Part 1 Learning theories - the application of intelligences; the behavioural approach to classroom management; the stages of the intellectual development of the child; children's ideas the learning of science; The joint socialization of development by young children and adults. Part 2 Learning contexts - implementing cooperative groupwork in classrooms; computer-based learning the social dimensions; mathematics in the streets and in schools; communication and control; oracy and literacy - from "The Savage Mind" to "Ways with Words". Part 3 Learning in action - the tension between theories of learning and instruction in mathmatics education; practical work in science - a task-based approach?' instrumental enrichment; the story of stories - and enquiry into children's narrative thought.