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Transforming Education
Reimagining Learning, Pedagogy and Curriculum
Transforming Education
Reimagining Learning, Pedagogy and Curriculum
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Description
Working away from trends in government policy, this book takes a future-oriented re-imagining of schools with a focus on four innate human capacities: collaboration, critical reflection, communication and creativity. Miranda Jefferson and Michael Anderson draw together examples of practice from around the world to provide a reimagining of education. They show how our schools can be sustainably transformed to be places of support, challenge and joy in learning, responsive to students' needs and the needs in our workplaces and wider society. Readers are empowered to use knowledge and experience to create the reality they would like to see in their school, building engaged, innovative and active learning, pedagogy curriculum and leadership.
Key ideas are summarised at the end of each chapter along with an extensive referencing and bibliography, and a supporting glossary.
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Foreword, Yong Zhao (Foundation Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Kansas, USA, and Professor in Educational Leadership, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Australia)
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
1. Transforming Education for the Infinite Game
2. Transforming Complexity through Capabilities
3. Transforming Values: Guides for Transformative Action
4. Transforming Learning: The Power of Agency
5. The Learning Disposition Wheel
6. Transforming Pedagogy: Curating Learning
7. The Pedagogy Parachute
8. Transforming Curriculum: Connecting Learning to Students and Their Context
9. Transforming Teacher Education: Experience, Reflection and Inquiry
10. Transforming Leadership: Shared and Collaborative Agency
11. Transforming Education: Putting the Pieces Together
Glossary
References
Index
Product details

Published | 22 Apr 2021 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 288 |
ISBN | 9781350130067 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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Perhaps now more than ever, we need to re-imagine what's possible for education. Making changes to education is, of course, no easy task. However, as Miranda Jefferson and Michael Anderson explain in this book, real change can start from the ground up. Meaningful changes require us to be willing to move our thinking and action beyond what education currently is to what it could and should be. Transforming Education offers both a vision and concrete direction for moving the shared project of education in new and more promising directions.
Ronald A. Beghetto, Pinnacle West Presidential Chair and Professor, Arizona State University, USA
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An informative and inspiring book with a future-oriented vision based on 4Cs. A recommended and relevant reading for principals and school educators who would like to make a difference towards quality schooling for our children and beyond.
John Chi-Kin Lee, Chair Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Education University of Hong Kong, China
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A timely pep talk on how to remain engaged in the dynamic process of teaching and learning. Seasoned educators and new school officials will appreciate this careful dissection of school reform. Making the abstract, concrete readers are treated to visual representations of complex ideas. The emphasis on critical reflection and transformative pedagogy offers a solid structure for those who would like to re-envision the process of schooling. Likewise, curricular illustrations help readers see how education is a life-long process well enough to rethink what it means to be an educated person.
Theresa A. Thorkildsen, Professor of Education and Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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Crackling with good ideas that schools will find stimulating and helpful as they think about how to become more creative.
Pat Thomson, Professor of Education, University of Nottingham, UK

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