Teaching for Understanding
Challenges for Policy and Practice

David K. Cohen (Author), Milbrey W. McLaughlin (Author), Joan E. Talbert (Author)

9781555425159, Wiley

Hardback, published 19 February 1993

315 pages
23.8 x 16 x 2.7 cm, 0.569 kg

Leading experts on teaching and policy research provide concrete illustrations of what teaching for understanding entails.

1. Introduction: New Visions of Teaching(Milbrey W. McLaughlin,Joan E. Talbert)
Part One: Views from the Classroom
2. Collaboration as a Context for Joining Teacher Learning withLearning about Teaching(Deborah L. Ball, Sylvia S. Rundquist)
3. Learning to Hear Voices: Inventing a New Pedagogy of TeacherEducation(Ruth M. Heaton, Magdalene Lampert)
4. Deeply Rooted Change: A Tale of Learning to TeachAdventurously(Suzanne M. Wilson with Carol Miller and CarolYerkes)
5. Creating Classroom Practice Within the Contexts of aRestructured Professional Development School(Sarah J. McCarthey,Penelope L. Peterson)
Part Two: Enabling Teaching for Understanding
6. Understanding Teaching in Context(Joan E. Talbert, Milbrey W.McLaughlin)
7. Pedagogy and Policy(David K. Cohen, Carol A. Barnes)
8. Conclusion: A New Pedagogy for Policy?(David K. Cohen, Carol A.Barnes)

Subject Areas: Education [JN]