Engaging Minds Changing Teaching in Complex Times

Name: Engaging Minds Changing Teaching in Complex Times
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ISBN: 9780805862874

ISBN-10: 0805862870

ISBN-13: 9780805862874

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Brent Davis, Dennis J. Sumara, Rebecca Luce-Kapler

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Engaging Minds involves readers in a stimulating, informative, comprehensive exploration of teaching and learning. Prompting examinations of the complexities of learning, pedagogy, and schooling ,nbsp; interrupts the assumptions and norms that frame popular understandings and refuses simplistic notions or unresolvable tensions that sometimes infuse popular debatesnbsp; aboutnbsp; knowing, learning, and teaching . A variety of sophisticated, interactive pedagogical features and graphic displays draw readers into new ways of thinking about and responding to the ideas and information presented.

Book details

List price: $58.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Brent Davis, DC has practiced integrative holistic medicine for over twenty years and is internationally recognized for his research and education in herbal therapy. The president and founder of Phytotherapy Research Laboratories, Dr. Davis has performed extensive field research on identifying and preserving medicinal herbs in their native habitats. He has also published numerous articles on the use of herbs in holistic medical practice.



Dedication


Acknowledgments



Knowing



Knowing Frames: Examining the commitments in knowledge claims



Knowing Looks: The biological and cultural roots of perception



Knowing Acts: (De)constructions of normality and development



Knowing Structures: Research into embodied memory and knowledge



Learning



Learning Frames: Complexity thinking as the study of learning systems



Learning Positions: Historical and contemporary perspectives on learning



Learning Minds: Intelligence, creativity, diversity and collectivity



Learning Forms: Technology and the structures of thought and culture



Teaching



Teaching Frames: Historical and emergent conceptions of teaching



Teaching Challenges: Inclusive and critical perspectives on teaching



Teaching Conditions: Reframing the pragmatics of pedagogy in complex terms



Teaching Encounters: The ethical dimensions of a life that includes teaching


References


Name Index


Topic Index