Rethinking Secondary Education: a Human-Centred Approach
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Main Author: Gill, Scherto (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken Taylor and Francis 2014
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Item Description:Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1:Towards human-centred education; Chapter 1. The aims of education; The aims of education; De-instrumentalising education; Chapter2. The nature of learning; Conception of learning; The quality of cognition; Chapter3. Motivation and emotion; Motivation; Emotions; Conclusion; Chapter4. The experience of being an adolescent; Introducing peer-to-peer research; The experience of being an adolescent; Future directions; Conclusion; Chapter5. Understanding adolescence; Changes in adolescence
Becoming oneselfConclusion; Chapter6. Human-centred education; Being human; Human flourishing; Qualities; Back to education; Conclusions; Part 2:Rethinking secondaryeducation; Chapter7. Curriculum; Definition and disputes; The human-centred principles; A suggested skeletal curriculum; Response to objections; Conclusion; Chapter8. The teacher and the art of teaching; Critical background; The traditional ideal; An alternative view; Teaching in a human-centred way; Conclusion; Chapter9. Assessing assessment; Theory of assessment; Who needs what assessment and why?; Conclusion
Chapter10. Young people's experiences of secondary schoolingThe overall experience of secondary schooling; The experiences of exams; Young people's perception of their teachers; Young people's experiences of pedagogy in secondaryschools; Conclusions; Chapter11. Building learning communities -- humanising schools; Education and schooling; Mainstream approaches to schooling; Alternative approaches to schooling; Human-centred learning community; Conclusion; References; Index
In this age of new academies, free schools and a general atmosphere of breaking loose from the constraints of Local Authority control and the National Curriculum, the opportunity to explore new alternatives to?mainstream' education, methods of teaching and the curriculum, has never been greater. In response to these issues, Gill and Thomson have written a new, cutting-edge text aimed at all those involved in the study of education or teacher training, that explores, debates and critiques new and alternative approaches to teaching young people today. The book discusses
Physical Description:313 pages
ISBN:9781317860532
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