Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools [Paperback]

Based on the Reggio Emilia approach to learning, Visible Learners highlights learning through interpreting objects and artifacts, group learning, and documentation to make students' learning evident to teachers. Visible classrooms are committed to five key principles: that learning is purposeful, social, emotional, empowering, and representational. The book includes visual essays, key practices, classroom and examples.

• Show how to make learning happen in relation to others, spark emotional connections, give students power over their learning, and express ideas in multiple ways
• Illustrate Reggio-inspired principles and approaches via quotes, photos, student and teacher reflections, and examples of student work
• Offer a new way to enhance learning using progressive, research-based practices for increasing collaboration and critical thinking in and outside the classroom

Visible Learners asks that teachers look beyond surface-level to understand who students are, what they come to know, and how they come to know it.

List of Contributors vi

Preface xi

1 Introduction to Block Copolymers 1
Ian W. Hamley

2 Recent Developments in Synthesis of Model Block Copolymers using Ionic Polymerisation 31
Kristoffer Almdut

3 Syntheses and Characterizations of Block Copolymers Prepared via Controlled Radical Polymerization Methods 71
Pan Cai-yuan and Hong Chun-van

4 Melt Behaviour of Block Copolymers 127
Shinichi Sakurai, Shigeru Okamoto and Kazuo Sakurai

5 Plase Behavior of Block Copolymer Blends 15l#9