There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades have seen an explosion of research that has important implications for individual learning, schooling, workforce training, and policy. In 2000, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition was published and its influence has been wide and deep. The report summarized insights on the nature of learning in school-aged children; described principles for the design of effective learning environments; and provided examples of how that could be implemented in the classroom. Since then, researchers have continued to investigate the nature of learning and have generated new findings related to the neurological processes involved in learning, individual and cultural variability related to learning, and educational technologies. In addition to expanding scientific understanding of the mechanisms of learning and how the brain adapts throughout the lifespan, there have been important discoveries about influences on learning, particularly sociocultural factors and the structure of learning environments. How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures provides a much-needed update incorporating insights gained from this research over the past decade. The book expands on the foundation laid out in the 2000 report and takes an in-depth look at the constellation of influences that affect individual learning. How People Learn II will become an indispensable resource to understand learning throughout the lifespan for educators of students and adults.
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• Contents
• List of Figures, Concept Tables, and Focal Points
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: Democracy, Diversity, and Inequity
• 1. The U.S. Schooling Dilemma: Diversity, Inequity, and Democratic Values
• 2. History and Culture: How Expanding Expectations and Powerful Ideologies Shape Schooling in the United States
• 3. Politics and Philosophy: The Struggle over the School Curriculum
• 4. Policy and Law: Rules That Schools Live By
• Part II: The Practice of Teaching to Change the World
• 5. The Subject Matters: Constructing Knowledge Across the Content Areas
• 6. Instruction: Teaching and Learning Across the Content Areas
• 7. Assessment: Measuring What Matters
• 8. Classrooms as Communities: Developing Caring and Democratic Relationships
• Part III: The Context of Teaching to Change the World
• 9. The School Culture: Where Good Teaching Makes Sense
• 10. School Structure: Sorting Students and Opportunities to Learn
• 11. The Community: Engaging with Families and Neighborhoods
• 12. Teaching to Change the World: A Profession and a Hopeful Struggle
• Bibliography
• Index
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Teaching to Change the World is an up-to-the-moment, engaging, social justice-oriented introduction to education and teaching, and the challenges and opportunities they present. Both foundational and practical, the chapters are organized around conventional topics but in a way that consistently integrates a coherent story that explains why schools are as they are. Taking the position that a hopeful, democratic future depends on ensuring that all students learn, the text pays particular attention to inequalities associated with race, social class, language, gender, and other social categories and explores teachers' role in addressing them. This thoroughly revised fifth edition remains a vital introduction to the profession for a new generation of teachers who seek to become purposeful, knowledgeable practitioners in our ever-changing educational landscape-for those teachers who see the potential for education to change the world. Features and Updates of the New Edition: * Fully updated Chapter 1, "The U.S. Schooling Dilemma, " reflects our current state of education after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. * First-person observations from teachers, including first-year teachers, continue to offer vivid, authentic pictures of what teaching to change the world means and involves. * Additional coverage of the ongoing effects of Common Core highlights the heated public discourse around teaching and teachers, and charter schools. * Attention to diversity and inclusion is treated as integral to all chapters, woven throughout rather than tacked on as separate units. * "Digging Deeper" resources on the new companion website include concrete resources that current and future teachers can use in their classrooms. * "Tools for Critique" provides instructors and students questions, prompts, and activities aimed at encouraging classroom discussion and particularly engaging those students least familiar with the central tenets of social justice education.
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