Liberating the Learner - Lessons for Professional Development in Education

This edited volume provides a new framework for exploring teacher's views on a whole range of professional issues related to teaching and learning. An essential purchase for anyone interested in the learning process.

List of contents

I: Theoretical perspectives; 1: Integrated learning theory and the learning teacher; 2: When is experiential learning not experiential learning?; 3: Liberating the learner through assessment; 4: Implicit theories of learning; II: Cultural perspectives; 5: Teachers as adult learners; 6: Teacher trainer and student teacher: sources of divergence in perceptions of learning?; 7: Understanding the apprenticeship of observation in initial teacher education; 8: PGCE student visit to The Gambia; 9: Home thoughts from abroad; 10: Overseas scholarships; III: The facilitation of learning; 11: When the going gets tough; 12: Learning to become a headteacher; 13: Development through collaborative working; 14: Using dissonance; 15: Teacher mentors and student teachers; 16: The supervisory process in teacher education; 17: Put it together and what have you got?

About the author

Terry Atkinson, Guy Caxton, Marilyn Osborn, Mike Wallace

Summary

This edited volume provides a new framework for exploring teacher's views on a whole range of professional issues related to teaching and learning. An essential purchase for anyone interested in the learning process.

Product details

• Authors: Terry Atkinson, Terry Caxton Atkinson
• Assisted by: Terry Atkinson (Editor), Atkinson Terry (Editor), Guy Caxton (Editor), Caxton Guy (Editor), Marilyn Osborn (Editor), Osborn Marilyn (Editor), Mike Wallace (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2017
• EAN: 9781138411067
• ISBN: 978-1-138-41106-7
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies