Understanding life in school : from the academic classroom to outdoor education / John Quay, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Author/creator Quay, John, 1964- author.
Format Electronic
PublicationHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2015.
Description1 online resource (xiv, 173 pages)
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
Subjects

Contents 1. Understanding Life so as to Understand Life in School -- 2. Investigating Life in School -- 3. Life in School: Occupations and Outdoor Education -- 4. Life in School: Occupations and Academic Classrooms -- 5. Life in School is Occupational.
Abstract We've all been to school, so what could be simpler than understanding life in school? The problem is that we take school for granted, accepting it for what it is without asking too many questions. This leaves us tinkering around the edges when it comes to school reform. A deeper understanding of life in school is required, which this book seeks to offer by going to the source of the matter itself ₆ the young people who are in the midst of the day-to-day routines of school life. Much is revealed by contrasting their experiences in academic classrooms and school camp, insights that remain invisible without this juxtaposition. Key to analysis of these experiences is an understanding of life as occupational, constituted through many and various ways of being. This highlights the importance to teaching and learning of addressing the issue of who we are, not just what we know.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 166-168) and index.
Source of descriptionPrint version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Quay, John, 1964- Understanding life in school 9781137391223
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9781137391230 (electronic bk.)
ISBN1137391235 (electronic bk.)
Stock number744389 Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgraveconnect.com

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