The Art and Science of Teaching and Learning The Selected Works of Ted Wragg [Paperback]

Ted Wragg is well-known for his writing on all the essential issues in education and over the last thirty years contributed over forty books and a thousand articles to the field. This book offers a personal selection of his key writings in one volume for the first time. With a specially written introduction, this internationally renowned author contextualises his work and gives an overview of his career. The broad-ranging subjects covered include:

• classroom teaching and learning
• training new and experienced teachers
• curriculum in action
• educational policy and its implementation
• communicating with professional and lay people.

This is the ideal book for those who want to have what Ted Wragg considered to be his best pieces in one place.

Part 1: Classroom Teaching and Learning  1. First encounters  2. Pupil appraisals of teaching  3. Class management in the primray school  4. Class management during teaching practice  5. A study of student teachers in the classroom  Part 2: Training new and experienced teachers  6. Teacher education: a historical perspective  7. What is teaching skill?  8. Explaining and explanations  9. Explaining ain the secondary school  Part 3: Curriculum in action  10. A curriculum for the future  11. Improving literacy  12. Learning to read  Part 4: Educational plicy and its implementation  13. State-approved knowledge? ten steps down the slippery slope  14. Education in the market place  15. Performance-related pay  16. The problems of incompetence  Part 5: Communicating with professional and lay people  17. Communicating with teachelÓ)