Emergent Teaching

A Path of Creativity, Significance, and Transformation

AvSam Crowell,David Reid-Marr

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Emergent Teaching inspires teachers to teach with more spontaneity and creativity within an educational environment that is highly constrained. It demonstrates, through descriptive stories, creative strategies and provides an intellectual foundation for emergent teaching. The authors show how teachers can relate subject matter to students’ lives and experience. They illustrate rituals and processes that help establish a caring learning community. Finally, the book applies the theories of complexity and chaos while reaffirming the natural wisdom that teachers possess within themselves. The authors have chosen a narrative format that “models” rather than “tells,” and encourages readers to connect to their own stories and experiences.The book is consistent with the theoretical understandings and research in the complexity sciences but takes a narrative approach, giving examples and illustrations of ideas through stories, myths, and parables that act as metaphors and illustrations. Key topics and practices embedded in these stories include:teaching the whole person strategies for creative teaching new understandings of processmeaning-centered learningbuilding community in the classroomstrengthening the student/teacher relationship project-based learning using art and nature in teaching embodied learningincorporating story and narrative in teachingrites of passageembracing the unpredictable, uncharted spaces in teaching

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-01-10
Mått:158 x 236 x 18 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:168
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781475802542

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Pedagogisk metodik inom Psykologi och pedagogik

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Sam Crowell is professor of education at California State University, San Bernardino and founder and co-director of the MA in Holistic and Integrative Education. The program has been recognized nationally as a model of transformative learning in a study funded by the Fetzer Foundation and published in the Journal for Transformative Education. The program has produced five educators who have been recognized as teacher-of-the-year, which just ten cohorts having graduated.David Reid-Marr is an adjunct professor in the MA in Holistic and Integrative Education at California State University, San Bernardino and teaches full time at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, a highly regarded high school for the arts.

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As states adopt common core standards and school districts ponder scripted curriculum that allegedly ensures that such standards are met, some classroom teachers have sought alternate routes. Emergent Teaching results from teachers' understanding that they can influence but cannot control what occurs in the classroom. Instead, Crowell and Reid-Marr assert that although teachers may anticipate certain patterns, classroom practice largely involves assisting learners to discover personal significance and creating a sense of belonging. Organized into ten chapters, the book defines emergent teaching and then examines some central tenets of the approach, including the experience of non-separation, event-centric teaching, non-linear instruction, the emergence of understanding, and the roles of play and joy in the classroom. Within these contexts, Crowell and Reid-Marr explore how teachers may encourage creativity, build relevance, and link emergence to the curriculum and other holistic concerns. Clearly written and full of useful examples of emergent teaching in action, the book is a great complement to A. S. Neill and Albert Lamb's Summerhill School (1994) or Maxine Greene's Releasing the Imagination. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1What Is Emergent Teaching?2Indra’s Net: Non-Separation as the Foundation for Emergent Teaching3Process From An Emergent Perspective: Event-Centric Teaching4The Shape of a Snake: Non-linearity and Emergence5Fostering a Learning State of Mind: Play, Joy, and Irreverence6Creativity: The Ceaseless Imperative7Aunt Kath Serves Tea: Ritual and Emergence8In the World – Teaching What Really Matters9When the Curriculum Disappears – A Holistic Perspective10The Path to Emergent Teaching in Classrooms and SchoolsEpilogueReferences