Teaching and Learning: The Essential Readings - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631217495 ISBN 13: 9780631217497

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

Synopsis

This is the first collection of key articles on the psychology behind educational attainment. It brings together in one volume for students a set of accessible but influential papers, representing the best classic and cutting edge work in the field.

About this title

About the Author

Charles Desforges is Professor of Education at the University of Exeter. His previous books include An Introduction to Teaching (Blackwell, 1995). He has also been the Director of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Programme for the past three years, the largest education research programme ever funded in the UK.

Richard Fox has recently retired after ten years as a lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at The School of Education, University of Exeter

Under the themes of basic processes in learning, interactions between teachers and learners, and metacognitive approaches to learning, the thirteen readings cover a wide range of topics. To help students gain an overview of the subject, each article is introduced and contextualized by the editors, as is the volume as a whole. Each paper is also accompanied by suggestions for further reading so that students can investigate topics in more depth if they wish.

This book of readings can be used alone or alongside a text on teaching and learning. In either context, it offers an ideal starting point for the exploration of key issues in educational attainment.

Under the themes of basic processes in learning, interactions between teachers and learners, and metacognitive approaches to learning, the thirteen readings cover a wide range of topics. To help students gain an overview of the subject, each article is introduced and contextualized by the editors, as is the volume as a whole. Each paper is also accompanied by suggestions for further reading so that students can investigate topics in more depth if they wish.

This book of readings can be used alone or alongside a text on teaching and learning. In either context, it offers an ideal starting point for the exploration of key issues in educational attainment.

Reviews

This volume is one of nine in Blackwell's "Essential Readings in Developmental Psychology" series. Editors Desforges and Fox, both affiliated with the University of Exeter, have gathered articles concerning the psychology of teaching and learning. Part 1 deals with learning, covering language, reading, math, higher education, and other topics. Part 2, "Teaching," explores topics such as tutoring, cognitive development, and assessment. Each essay shows the connection between education and psychology. For example, the first essay, "Attaining Excellence Through Deliberate Practice," by K. Anders Ericsson, studies the nature-nurture debate as it applies to learning. How do children become experts in certain subjects or fields? What is the relationship, if any, between effort and giftedness? Each of the ten essays begins with a brief introduction by the editors and ends with a list of references for further study. The collection includes both current and "classic" works. This volume is meant to be used either alone or in addition to a text on teaching and learning and therefore would be of interest primarily to academic libraries. Terry Christner, Hutchinson P.L., KS
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Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631217495
• ISBN 13: 9780631217497
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Desforges Charles, Fox Richard