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EXPANSIVE EDUCATION
Bill Lucas
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Description for EXPANSIVE EDUCATION
Paperback. This book offers a powerful manifesto for schools to articulate a different vision of education that looks beyond exam success. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
Teachers from schools across the world believe that there is more to education than success in examinations. Many practitioners are becoming increasingly familiar with expansive education concepts such as learning dispositions, habits of mind, and expandable intelligence, and are striving to instill these valuable mind-sets into their pupils. In this groundbreaking and visionary book, acclaimed authors Lucas, Claxton and Spencer define, consolidate and reinforce this revolutionary shift.
Teachers from schools across the world believe that there is more to education than success in examinations. Many practitioners are becoming increasingly familiar with expansive education concepts such as learning dispositions, habits of mind, and expandable intelligence, and are striving to instill these valuable mind-sets into their pupils. In this groundbreaking and visionary book, acclaimed authors Lucas, Claxton and Spencer define, consolidate and reinforce this revolutionary shift.
Expansive Education: Teaching learners for the real world 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 ... Read more
Expansive Education offers:
- Radical thinking about the purpose of schools, underpinned by latest literature from the learning sciences
- A critical exploration of what works in practice and an analysis of pioneering concepts that support dispositional approaches to learning
- A scaffolding framework that assists teachers in consistently choosing those methods most likely to create expansive learning environments
- A powerful manifesto for individual schools, clusters of schools, districts and national systems to articulate a different vision of education and a means of tracking real progress.
Product Details
Publisher
OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
318g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780335247554
SKU
V9780335247554
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About Bill Lucas
Bill Lucas is Co-Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester. Guy Claxton is Co-Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning, and Professor of the Learning Sciences, at the University of Winchester. Ellen Spencer is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Real-World Learning (CRL).
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