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Turning the Soul: Teaching through Conversation in the High School
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Is our nation’s educational system faltering in part because it strives to teach students predetermined “right” answers to questions? In Turning the Soul, Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon offers and alternative to methods advocated by conventional educational practice. By guiding the reader back and forth between two high school classes discussing Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, she gracefully introduces the alternative approach to education: interpretive discussion.
One class, located in a private, racially integrated urban school, has had many conversations about the meaning of books. The second group, less advantaged students in a largely black urban school, has not. The reader watches as students in each g… More >>
Turning the Soul: Teaching through Conversation in the High School
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Talking Shop: Authentic Conversation and Teacher Learning
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What do teachers learn from talking to one another about their practice? This set of stories focuses on this important question and presents a case for how the ordinary talk among teachers is a potent medium for teacher training and professional development. Drawing from the work from eight groups of teachers in the United States and Israel who have met in conversation for the past four to five years, the contributors present descriptions of the complexities, obstacles, contradictions, and possibilities that can accompany teacher conversation. Their research findings culminate in a practical model that helps guide educators in developing and supporting their own teacher conversation groups. They show how the de… More >>
Talking Shop: Authentic Conversation and Teacher Learning
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Curriculum as Conversation: Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning
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“Applebee’s central point, the need to teach ‘knowledge in context,’ is absolutely crucial for the hopes of any reformed curriculum. His experience and knowledge give his voice an authority that makes many of the current proposals on both the left and right seem shallow by comparison.”–Gerald Graff, University of Chicago… More >>
Curriculum as Conversation: Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning
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