Classrooms as Learning Communities

What's In It For Schools?
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-32779-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 350 g

Reihe: What's in it for schools?

In classrooms that operate as learning communities, the social and learning purposes advance together through all participants being involved and engaged in building knowledge. This book demonstrates a new way of seeing and managing classrooms through:

- an integration of what's best in learning and what's best in the social life of classrooms

- a vision of the role of the teacher that is more creative and more related to the commitments of teachers

- a more connected view of schools in contrast to the mechanistic view that currently dominates

- an answer to the short-term performance pressures of politicians - better performance.

The practice and vision of classrooms that operate as learning communities is presented clearly and encourages teachers to take steps towards building a more effective classroom with the aspects of learning communities they choose.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watkins, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Classrooms, Change, Learning, Teaching, Community 3. Community 4. Classrooms as Learning Communities Practices in Classrooms 5. Goals in a Learning Community 6. Tasks in a Learning Community 7. Social Structure in a Learning Community 8. Resources in a Learning Community 9. Roles in a Learning Community Observing Classrooms as Learning Communities 10. Schools as Learning Communities

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Watkins is a reader in education at the University of London, Institute of Education and course tutor to the MA in Effective Learning. He has been a teacher and worked with pupils whose effect on school was sometimes disruptive. For twenty years he has contributed to improvements in tutoring, mentoring, classroom behaviour, school behaviour and learning.