Expansive education : teaching learners for the real world / Bill Lucas, Guy Claxton and Ellen Spencer ; with a foreword by Arthur L. Costa.

Author/creator Lucas, Bill, 1956- author.
Other author Claxton, Guy author.
Other author Spencer, Ellen, author.
Other author Costa, Arthur L., writer of supplementary textual content.
Format Book
Publication InfoMaidenhead, Berkshire, England : Open University Press, 2013.
Descriptionxxi, 217 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Subjects
Learning.
Teaching.
Progressive education.

Contents 1. Widening goals, strengthening minds and creating enquiring teachers -- What is education for? -- Education that is truly expansive -- Cultivating dispositions -- The layers of learning -- Who is expansive education for? -- Conventional school success does not make you smart -- Differences between expansive approaches -- Infusion -- An expansive kind of epistemic apprenticeship -- 2. The evolution of expansive education -- Earlier expansive educators -- Influential cognitive psychologists -- Progressive expansive educators -- Thinking from the learning sciences today -- Expansive learning for teachers -- Close relatives of expansive education -- 3. Current approaches to expansive education -- Our own journey -- The expansive education network -- Stories from the frontline of expansive education : developing expansive dispositions -- Stories from the frontline of expansive education : demonstrating the learnability of intelligence -- Stories from the frontline of expansive education : going beyond the school -- Stories from the frontline of expansive education : developing the culture and practices of enquiring teachers -- The impacts of expansive education -- Some expansive voices -- 4. Expansive pedagogy : a new model -- Defining pedagogy -- Teachers, learners and expansive education -- Expansive learning environments -- A decision-making framework for expansive pedagogy -- A new framework for learning? -- 5. Expansive education : a theory and a call to action -- Our theory of action -- Barriers to change in schools -- Stories of success -- Changing teachers' habits -- Some frequently aired doubts -- The call to action.
Abstract "Showcases a growing number of schools that are developing methods of teaching and learning that deliberately cultivate powerful learners. Drawing on established theory as well as current research and practice, this essential resource encapsulates the best of these approaches, and demonstrates discernible links to achievement gains and learner engagement."--Publishers website
General notePublished in Australia and New Zealand by ACER Press.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 197-212) and index.
ISBN0335247555 (pbk. : Open University Press)
ISBN9780335247554 (pbk. : Open University Press)
ISBN1742861105 (pbk. : ACER Press)
ISBN9781742861104 (pbk. : ACER Press)

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