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- catalog abstract ""One of America's original thinkers about public education, Seymour Sarason poses the crucial question for all educators - "What do you mean by learning?" "Learning" is the word most used in educational literature and yet educators have great difficulty in defining it. Sarason demonstrates that the lack of clarity about the concept of learning is at the root of the disappointments of educational reform, the inadequacies of preparatory programs, and proclamations of policy. He takes a look at another question as well: Why are the principles of learning implied by what parents of preschoolers say and do so different from the principles educators employ? And he goes a step further when he asks: Why is it that no one, educators or otherwise, has ever said that schools are places where teachers learn?" "Central to Sarason's questions on all fronts is the distinction between the contexts of productive and unproductive learning, the latter being far more frequent than the former. Unlike the words "sticks" and "stones", "learning" is not concrete, visible, palpable. Learning is a process that takes place in a social context involving and intertwining motivation and attitudes, cognitive and emotional responses, no one of which is ever zero in strength. Recognizing this has enormous implications for pedagogy, school administration, and educational policy. Sarason discusses these implications by use of concrete examples familiar to any reader." "And What Do You Mean by Learning? is not about theory - it's a warning. It alerts readers to how glossing over what they mean by learning effectively stymies any educational reform. Educators' stock-in-trade is learning. Only when they become aware of what learning encompasses and the contexts in which it occurs can we have a starting point for real education."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13080273.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""One of America's original thinkers about public education, Seymour Sarason poses the crucial question for all educators - "What do you mean by learning?" "Learning" is the word most used in educational literature and yet educators have great difficulty in defining it. Sarason demonstrates that the lack of clarity about the concept of learning is at the root of the disappointments of educational reform, the inadequacies of preparatory programs, and proclamations of policy. He takes a look at another question as well: Why are the principles of learning implied by what parents of preschoolers say and do so different from the principles educators employ? And he goes a step further when he asks: Why is it that no one, educators or otherwise, has ever said that schools are places where teachers learn?" "Central to Sarason's questions on all fronts is the distinction between the contexts of productive and unproductive learning, the latter being far more frequent than the former. Unlike the words "sticks" and "stones", "learning" is not concrete, visible, palpable. Learning is a process that takes place in a social context involving and intertwining motivation and attitudes, cognitive and emotional responses, no one of which is ever zero in strength. Recognizing this has enormous implications for pedagogy, school administration, and educational policy. Sarason discusses these implications by use of concrete examples familiar to any reader." "And What Do You Mean by Learning? is not about theory - it's a warning. It alerts readers to how glossing over what they mean by learning effectively stymies any educational reform. Educators' stock-in-trade is learning. Only when they become aware of what learning encompasses and the contexts in which it occurs can we have a starting point for real education."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-203).".
- catalog description "The major themes -- Words and things -- Infant and parental learning -- Parent as teachers -- Home and school contexts of learning -- What do we mean by critical thinking? -- Practical vs. impractical -- The phenomenology of teachers -- The disconnect between administrators and classroom learning -- What do administrators know about contexts of learning? -- What is missing in a voucher policy -- What can people become? -- Postscript. Mr. Rogers neighborhood.".
- catalog extent "xi, 203 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "And what do you mean by learning?".
- catalog identifier "0325006393 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "And what do you mean by learning?".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann,".
- catalog relation "And what do you mean by learning?".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "370.15/23 22".
- catalog subject "Educational change United States.".
- catalog subject "LB1060 .S27 2004".
- catalog subject "Learning.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The major themes -- Words and things -- Infant and parental learning -- Parent as teachers -- Home and school contexts of learning -- What do we mean by critical thinking? -- Practical vs. impractical -- The phenomenology of teachers -- The disconnect between administrators and classroom learning -- What do administrators know about contexts of learning? -- What is missing in a voucher policy -- What can people become? -- Postscript. Mr. Rogers neighborhood.".
- catalog title "And what do you mean by learning? / Seymour B. Sarason.".
- catalog type "text".