The Classroom [electronic resource] : Encounter and Engagement /
Block, A.author.
What goes on in a classroom? can mean "Are teachers imparting knowledge that will raise test scores?" or it can mean much more. In this series of essays, Block addresses the nature of the classroom as a place for encounter and engagements: with curriculum materials and books, between teachers and students, and with the self.
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Cover; The Classroom; Contents; Chapter 1: On the Beginnings of Ends and the Ends of Beginnings; A First Step: (On the Impossibility of this Preface to a Series of Prefaces); A Second Step: On an End to Beginnings and Endings; Chapter 2: Why Read the Book?; Why Read?; Chapter 3: On the Asking of Questions; Chapter 4: Saint Joan in the Classroom; Chapter 5: The Last Lesson; Not a Digression; Notes; Chapter 6: Cabins, Pequods, and Classrooms; II; Some Other Cabins I Have Known; III; Know ye Bulkington?; Me and the White Whale; Epilogue: The Classroom as Cabin; Afterword(s)?
The Question My Life PresentsThe Curriculum Question; Notes; References; Bibliography; Index
What goes on in a classroom? can mean "Are teachers imparting knowledge that will raise test scores?" or it can mean much more. In this series of essays, Block addresses the nature of the classroom as a place for encounter and engagements: with curriculum materials and books, between teachers and students, and with the self.
Child development.
Teaching.
Curriculums (Courses of study).
Education—Curricula.
School management and organization.
School administration.
Early Childhood Education.
Teaching and Teacher Education.
Curriculum Studies.
Administration, Organization and Leadership.