Author Dr Roseanna Bourke takes the reader on a fascinating exploration of learning: the theory, practice and young people's take on it. What do you say to a young person who tells you her brain is an eighth full? Or to the one who says he only knows he has learned something when he receives a stamp or a sticker? This book is about how learners conceptualise learning, how they self-assess their own learning and why context matters. It shows how, just as a chameleon changes colour, learners change and adapt their approach to learning depending on the situation. It draws on examples of learning by Years 7-8 students from the classroom and out of school, looking at how their views and values are shaped and how they satisfy their own learning needs. Dr Bourke is a senior lecturer in the School of Educational Psychology and Pedagogy at Victoria University and has previously worked as a teacher and education psychologist. She currently teaches postgraduate courses in learning and motivation, and in assessment and evaluation.
Learning and personal development are integral to being a person, and learning and teaching are integral to life as a social being. Understanding Children’s Informal Learning presents children’s informal learning out-of-school and explores how this knowledge can enhance teaching and learning practice in the classroom.
Good teachers are good learners. But teacher learning is exacting intellectual and emotional work. So, how should we support the learning of teachers in schools and early childhood centres? TALK ABOUT LEARNING summarises the best of what we know about how to assist New Zealand teachers to solve their ordinary pedagogical puzzles, together with a series of hands-on accounts of what it is like to work alongside teachers as they learn. TALK ABOUT LEARNING is for all teachers and teacher educators who believe that learning underpins teaching, and who want to know more about the theory and practice of how teacher learning really works. It addresses one of the major silences in teacher education, and captures the many practical complexities that occur when teachers and in-service teacher educators work and learn alongside each other.
Learning and personal development are integral to being a person, and learning and teaching are integral to life as a social being. Understanding Children’s Informal Learning presents children’s informal learning out-of-school and explores how this knowledge can enhance teaching and learning practice in the classroom.
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