Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Colleges of higher education
|
Buy Now
In Search of Deeper Learning - The Quest to Remake the American High School (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R990
Discovery Miles 9 900
|
|
In Search of Deeper Learning - The Quest to Remake the American High School (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Donate to Gift Of The Givers
Total price: R1,010
Discovery Miles: 10 100
|
"The best book on high school dynamics I have ever read."-Jay
Mathews, Washington Post An award-winning professor and an
accomplished educator take us beyond the hype of reform and inside
some of America's most innovative classrooms to show what is
working-and what isn't-in our schools. What would it take to
transform industrial-era schools into modern organizations capable
of supporting deep learning for all? Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine's
quest to answer this question took them inside some of America's
most innovative schools and classrooms-places where educators are
rethinking both what and how students should learn. The story they
tell is alternately discouraging and hopeful. Drawing on hundreds
of hours of observations and interviews at thirty different
schools, Mehta and Fine reveal that deeper learning is more often
the exception than the rule. And yet they find pockets of powerful
learning at almost every school, often in electives and
extracurriculars as well as in a few mold-breaking academic
courses. These spaces achieve depth, the authors argue, because
they emphasize purpose and choice, cultivate community, and draw on
powerful traditions of apprenticeship. These outliers suggest that
it is difficult but possible for schools and classrooms to achieve
the integrations that support deep learning: rigor with joy,
precision with play, mastery with identity and creativity. This
boldly humanistic book offers a rich account of what education can
be. The first panoramic study of American public high schools since
the 1980s, In Search of Deeper Learning lays out a new vision for
American education-one that will set the agenda for schools of the
future.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.