
And What Do YOU Mean by Learning?
Seymour Sarason(Author)
Pearson (Publisher)
Published on 12. January 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
203 pages
978-0-325-00639-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Learning" is the word most used in educational literature and yet educators have great difficulty in defining it. Sarason demonstrates that the lack of clarity about the concept of learning is at the root of the disappointments of educational reform, the inadequacies of preparatory programs, and proclamations of policy
This resource alerts readers to how glossing over what they mean by learning effectively stymies any educational reform. Educators' stock-in-trade is learning. Only when they become aware of what learning encompasses and the contexts in which it occurs can we have a starting point for real education.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
304 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-325-00639-0 (9780325006390)
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Person
Seymour B. Sarason is Professor Emeritus of Yale University's Department of Psychology where he taught for forty-five years. He is the founder of the Yale Psycho-Educational Clinic and the author of more than forty books, most of which bear directly on education.
Content
1. The Major Themes
2. Words and Things
3. Infant and Parental Learning
4. Parent as Teachers
5. Home and School Contexts of Learning
6. What Do We Mean by Critical Thinking?
7. Practical versus Impractical
8. Creativity and Classrooms
9. The Disconnect Between Administrators and Classroom Learning
10. What Do Administrators Know About Contexts of Learning?
11. What Is Missing in a Voucher Policy?
12. What Can People Become?
Postscript: Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
2. Words and Things
3. Infant and Parental Learning
4. Parent as Teachers
5. Home and School Contexts of Learning
6. What Do We Mean by Critical Thinking?
7. Practical versus Impractical
8. Creativity and Classrooms
9. The Disconnect Between Administrators and Classroom Learning
10. What Do Administrators Know About Contexts of Learning?
11. What Is Missing in a Voucher Policy?
12. What Can People Become?
Postscript: Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood