Synopsis
Section I: Introduction
1. Teaching as if children matter
2. The place for Dewey's constructivism of intelligent action in the American meritocracy of Thorndike
3. The Confucian concept of learning
Section II: Engaged Learning for Understanding: STEM Education
4. Pedagogic doublethink: Scientific enquiry and the construction of personal knowledge under the English National Curriculum for science
5. The practice turn in learning theory and in science education
6. How constructivism can boost success in STEM fields for women and minorities
Section III: Other Literacies
7. Reconceptualizing accountability: The ethical importance of expanding understandings of literacy and assessment for 21st century learners
8. Where DAP is due: Constructing community across difference with the Dialogue Arts Project
9. A constructing perspective on games in Education
Section IV: Social Studies and Social Life
10. Social studies, Common Core, and the threat to constructivist education
11. Toward a resolution for teacher-student conflict: Crafting spaces of rigorous freedom with classroom debate
12. Activity settings as context for motivation: Reframing classroom motivation as dilemmas within and between activities
13. Expeditionary learning, constructivism, and the emotional risks of open-ended inquiry
Section V: Implications for the future of public education
14. Learning, teaching, and social justice: Eleanor Duckworth's perspective
15. How documentation of practice contributes to construction and reconstruction of an understanding of learning and teaching
16. Reimagining research and practice in education
17. School learning as compliance or creation
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