Learning Without Limits
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2004
294 pages
978-0-335-22571-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores ways of teaching that are free from determinist beliefs about ability. In a detailed critique of the practices of ability labelling and ability-focussed teaching, Learning without Limits examines the damage these practices can do to young people, teachers and the curriculum. Drawing on a research project at the University of Cambridge, the book features nine vivid case studies (from Year 1 to Year 11) that describe how teachers have developed alternative practices despite considerable pressure on them and on their schools and classrooms.
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Susan Hart | Annabelle Dixon | Mary Jane Drummond
Learning without Limits
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03/2004
Open University Press
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Content
- Front cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Part 1 Beyond ability-based teaching and learning
- Chapter 1 Ability, educability and the current improvement agenda
- Chapter 2 What's wrong with ability labelling?
- Chapter 3 The Learning without Limits project: methods and approaches
- Part 2 Accounts of the teachers' practice
- Introduction
- Chapter 4 Anne's approach: they all have their different ways to go
- Chapter 5 Claire's approach: a thinking classroom
- Chapter 6 Alison's approach: an open invitation
- Chapter 7 Narinder's approach: the promise of tomorrow
- Chapter 8 Patrick's approach: only connect
- Chapter 9 Nicky's approach: step back and look at the children
- Chapter 10 Yahi's approach: raising the level of trust
- Chapter 11 Julie's approach: access, security and success
- Chapter 12 Non's approach: the bridge between values and practice
- Part 3 The core idea of transformability
- Chapter 13 Transforming the capacity to learn
- Chapter 14 Purposes and principles in practice
- Chapter 15 Young people's perspectives on learning without limits
- Chapter 16 Framing learning without limits teaching: contexts and retrospectives
- Chapter 17 Towards an alternative improvement agenda
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back cover
