Learning and teaching in a metropolis /

Learning and teaching in a metropolis / / edited by Lynn Ang, John Trushell and Patricia Walker.

This book provides a valuable contribution to our thinking about education in a modern metropolis. One of the strengths of this book is its diversity of topics which range from research with young children to adult learners, and compulsory schooling to higher education. The contributors are concerne...

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Superior document:At the interface/Probing the boundaries, The idea of education vol. 60.
TeilnehmendeR:
Ang, Lynn.
Trushell, John.
Walker, Patricia.
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2010.
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 60.
Physical Description:1 online resource (242 p. ); ill. ;
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Learning and Teaching in a Metropolis: Introduction / Lynn Ang and John Trushell
  • Teacher Training in an Urban Setting: A Story from East London / Neil Herrington , Caroline Brennan and Kathy Wright
  • Educating the Outcast? Policy and Practice in the Teaching of Gypsy/Traveller Children / Erika Cudworth and David Cudworth
  • To Have and Have Not: Implications for Teacher-trainees on First School Placements in a Diverse Range of ICT Resource Settings / David Morris and John Trushell
  • The Men in White Coats: Teacher Trainees’ Perceptions of Scientists / Hazel Dorrington and John Trushell
  • Constructing and Deconstructing Newly-qualified Teachers’ Values in an Urban Context / Gerry Czerniawski
  • “If You Could Wave a Magic Wand…” - Special Educational Needs in London: Diversity, Complexity and Context / Suzanne Mackenzie
  • Drumming up Enthusiasm: Using Steel Pans with Adults and Children with Special Educational Needs / Lionel McCalman
  • Silent Voices: British Muslim Pupils in Mainstream Schools in East London / Nasima Hassan
  • Merely Gestural? Schools as a Site for Posturing against a Theatre of the Depressed / Namita Chakrabarty and John Preston
  • Discover as a Learning Environment: Stimulating Creativity and Learning in Diversity / Joanne Kenworthy
  • The Commodification of British Higher Education: Trials and Triumphs of Massification in the Metropolitan University. / Patricia Walker
  • The SENDA Agenda: The Vision for Inclusive Higher Education / Helen Masterton
  • Undergraduate Autonomy and Diversity: Perspectives from a Post-1992 University / Ratha Perumal.

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