Preface -- Chapter 1. Research -- Chapter 2. Find Patterns -- Chapter 3. Ideate -- Chapter 4. Prototype -- Chapter 5. Iterate.Creativity, Education and the Arts Series Editor: Anne Harris, Monash University, Australia This book advances an environmental approach to enhancing creativity in secondary schools, by interweaving educational creativity theory with creative industries environmental app…
In an examination of the impact of education policy on Australia's diverse student population, this book asks if increasing the years of compulsory schooling can make the positive social impact its proponents claim. The authors' analysis reveals a policy disjuncture wrought by competing agendas of increased school leaving age and school choice.
Childhood and Nation explores the historical and manifold current relations between nation and childhood. Millei and Imre bring together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address many pressing questions of today. The analytical incisions created by nation and childhood bring answers to the following questions: How do national agendas related to economic, social and pol…
Chapter 1 Introduction: Why it is important to answer back -- Chapter 2 Daring to disagree about school 'discipline': An Australian case study of a media-led backlash -- Chapter 3 Understanding and challenging dominant discourses about student behaviour at school -- Chapter 4 Promoting pedagogies of engagement in secondary schools: Possibilities for pedagogical reform -- Chapter 5 Goodbye Mr. C…
Chapter 1 Framing: Young Children Relating and Playing -- Chapter 2 Research Methods: Observing Experience in Two projects (Parts 2 and 3) -- Chapter 3 The Intersubjective in-between-ness in Young Children's Playfulness -- Chapter 4 Words Connecting Children Playfully Together -- Chapter 5 Becoming Selves in Play -- Chapter 6 Imagining while Playing -- Chapter 7 Feelings Felt in Bodies -- Chapt…
Youth Work, Early Education, and Psychology re-examines the set of relations generally referred to as working with children and youth. It presents a series of propositions that highlight politicized strategies to working with young people under current conditions of late liberal capitalism.
Introduction -- On Developing Students' Mathematical Intelligence -- Presentations into Investigations -- Habits of the Mind: The Heart of the Mathematics Curriculum -- Lessons from a Third-Grade Mathematics Classroom -- Sharing the Language of Productive Inquiry -- Collaborative Mathematics Investigations -- On Providing a Supportive Mathematics Classroom -- Including Students' Goals -- Gradin…
This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations in our own time. The case is made for Klein’s relevance and the difficulties her theories pose to the activities of learning and pedagogical relation. Klein’s vocabulary—the paranoid/schizo…
1 Introduction -- 2 The Affective domain, mathematics, and mathematics education -- 3 Investigating students' ideas about mathematics and mathematics education -- 4 Students' beliefs and attitudes about mathematics and learning mathematics -- 5 Differences in the affective responses of various groups -- 6 Changes in affective responses to mathematics through the middle school years -- 7 Buildin…
Chapter 1 Mathematics at the Margins -- Chapter 2 Being at the margins ≠ being unsuccessful at mathematics -- Chapter 3 Mathematics and marginality -- Chapter 4 Marginality and mathematics -- Chapter 5 Crossing the divide -- Chapter 6 Redressing the imbalance -- Chapter 7 Maintaining the momentum.This book reports the impact a four-year longitudinal study (Representations, Oral Language and E…