The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Teaching and Learning [Paperback]

In this new Reader, Ted Wragg has carefully selected contributions to reflect enduring and contemporary trends in the field of Teaching and Learning. Focusing on the major issues confronting education today, this lively and informative Reader provides a rich hand-picked resource of some of the most influential writing from leading books and journals within education today. Topics include:
* Early learning
* Teaching and learning strategies
* Teaching the wider curriculum
* Education for all
* Managing teaching and learning
* Teaching and teacher education
With a specially written introduction from the editor, providing a much-needed context to the current education climate, students of education will find this Reader an important route map to further reading and understanding.Part 1: Early Learning  1. Passion, Paradox and Professionalism in Early Years Education 2. Scaffolding Learning through Meaningful Tasks and Adult Interaction  3. Rhetoric and Reality in Developing Language and Mathematics Skill  Part 2: Teaching and Learning Strategies  4. Investigating Pupils' Questions in the Primary Classroom  5. The Two Rs - Rules and Relationships 6. Learning and Teaching Styles Part 3: Teaching the Wider Curriculum  7. The Potential Impact of the Literacy Hour on the Teaching of Science for Text Material 8. Thinking Skills: The Question of Generality 9. On the Concept of Manner and its Visibility in Teaching Practice Part 4: Education for All 10. Shaun's Story: Troubling Discources of White Working Class Masculinities  11. School Trouble: A Mother's Burden  12. Pupil Participation and Pupil Perspective: Carving a New Order of lG