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Learning without Limits (Paperback, Ed)
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"The style and language used by the authors make the book readable
and therefore a book that practising teachers can actively use as a
guide to improve their practice ...it is amply demonstrated that
teaching can and should be an activity whose primary focus is to
enhance students' learning capacity and not limit it." Journal of
Inservice Education Why do some teachers insist on teaching without
recourse to judgements about ability? What are the key principles
on which they draw as they organize and provide for learning? What
is the significance of their alternative approach for classrooms in
the 21st century? This book explores ways of teaching that are free
from determinist beliefs about ability. In a detailed critique of
the practices of ability labelling and ability-focussed teaching,
Learning without Limits examines the damage these practices can do
to young people, teachers and the curriculum. Drawing on a research
project at the University of Cambridge, the book features nine
vivid case studies (from Year 1 to Year 11) that describe how
teachers have developed alternative practices despite considerable
pressure on them and on their schools and classrooms.The authors
analyze these case studies and identify the key concept of
transformability as a distinguishing feature of these teachers'
approach. They construct a model of pedagogy based on
transformability: the mind-set that children's futures as learners
are not pre-determined, and that teachers can help to strengthen
and ultimately transform young people's capacity to learn through
the choices they make. The book shows how transformability-based
teaching can play a central role in constructing an alternative
improvement agenda.This book will inspire teachers, student
teachers, lecturers and policy makers, as well as everyone who has
a stake in how contemporary education and practice affect
children's future lives and life chances.
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