Art and Science of Teaching and Learning

Ted Wragg is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Exeter, UK. He has been researching and writing about education for over thirty years and is regularly required to commentate on educational issues for the media.

'When this selection of pieces was made, Ted Wragg was as alive as only he could be; now that he is dead, the book forms a worthy celebration of him and his life. He was above all a teacher, and his considerable research output—which was essentially qualitative—was firmly rooted in the problems of teachers and pupils. He was an iconoclast par excellence.'- British Journal of Educational Technology Vol 38 No 1 2007

• Part 1: Classroom Teaching and Learning 1. First encounters 2. Pupil appraisals of teaching 3. Class management in the primray school 4. Class management during teaching practice 5. A study of student teachers in the classroom Part 2: Training new and experienced teachers 6. Teacher education: a historical perspective 7. What is teaching skill? 8. Explaining and explanations 9. Explaining ain the secondary school Part 3: Curriculum in action 10. A curriculum for the future 11. Improving literacy 12. Learning to read Part 4: Educational plicy and its implementation 13. State-approved knowledge? ten steps down the slippery slope 14. Education in the market place 15. Performance-related pay 16. The problems of incompetence Part 5: Communicating with professional and lay people 17. Communicating with teachers and the public 18. Education, satire and polemic