Robin Alexander

Education in Spite of Policy (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on his experience as teacher, researcher, government adviser, campaigner and international consultant, and on over 600 published sources, Robin Alexander expertly illustrates and illuminates these processes. This selection from his recent writing, some hitherto unpublished, opens windows onto cases that concern every teacher.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351688758
• Artikelnr.: 62950910

Autorenporträt

Robin Alexander is Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge, Professor of Education Emeritus at the University of Warwick, and Fellow of the British Academy. His five-nation Culture and Pedagogy (2001) won the Outstanding Book Award of the American Educational Research Association, while Children, their World, their Education (2010), and his work as director of the Cambridge Primary Review, won the SES Book Awards First Prize and the BERA/Sage Public Impact and Engagement Award. His most recent book, A Dialogic Teaching Companion (2020), is a summation of many years of work on the quality of talk in teaching and learning.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction PART 1
ABOVE THE PARAPET 2. A tale of two reviews 3. Health of a nation 4. Success, amnesia and collateral damage 5. Triumph of the eristic 6. What works and what matters 7. Evidence, mediation and narrative PART 2
CURRICULUM CONVOLUTIONS 8. Reform, retrench or recycle? 9. Epistemic imbroglio 10. Entitlement, freedom and minimalism 11. Neither national nor a curriculum 12. Beyond the reach of art 13. True grit 14. Curriculum capacity and leadership PART 3
SPEAKING BUT NOT LISTENING 15. Promise and politics of talk 16. Evaluating dialogic teaching 17. The unquestioned answer 18. Dialogic pedagogy in a post-truth world PART 4
EDUCATION FOR ALL 19. Towards a comparative pedagogy 20. World beating or world sustaining? 21. Moral panic and miracle cures 22. In pursuit of quality Bibliography