Cultivating Cultures of Thinking in Australian Schools: From Control to Curiosity [Hardcover]

Table of Contents

Foreword  Ron Ritchhart

List of Contributors

Introduction  From Control to Curiosity
Cameron Paterson and Simon Brooks (Eds)

Section 1  Empowering Learners
Chapter 1 - Unlearning Control
Cameron Paterson
Chapter 2  Stoking The Fires: How Cultivating Curiosity Leads to Enhanced Engagement and Deeper Understanding
Simon Brooks

Section 2 - Shifting Paradigms
Chapter 3 - Restructuring schools for relationships, play, and time to think
Pasi Sahlberg
Chapter 4 - Indigenous Knowledges  valuing different thinking paradigms
Professor Melitta Hogarth, Dr John Doolah & Mr Justin Wilkey

Section 3 - Transforming Classrooms
Chapter 5 - Will this be on the test?: How Teachers in Australian Schools Help Students Focus More on Learning and Less on Work
Simon Brooks
Chapter 6 - Exploring Collaborative Learning
Milica Savic
Chapter 7  Encouraging Learners to Do the Heavy Lifting
Lana Fleiszig
Chapter 8  Creating a Culture of Self-Directed learning: Risk-taking, Feedback, Goals, repeat
April Taylor

Section 4 - Leading Professional Growth
Chapter 9  Pathways to Cultures of Thinking in Troubled Times
Nicole Mockler
Chapter 10  Cultivating a Culture of Thinking at Masada College: Something We Are, Rather Than Something We Do
Ryan Gill & Carla Gagliano
Chapter 11 - Principles of Adult Learning in Cultures of Thinking: Challenges, Calls to Action and Triumphs
Samantha Gooch
Chapter 12 - Empowering Educators: Using Professional Learning Communities to Embed Cultures of Thinking
Kara Baxter
Chapter 13  Why are school meetings so badlsÄ