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Learning to Educate

Proposals for the Reconstruction of Education in Developing Countries

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  1. Ernesto Schiefelbein
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  2. Noel F. McGinn
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  • The book compares a variety of teaching methods for their fit with basic principles of learning, and for their implications for the recruitment, training, and allocation of teachers.
  • The book proposes basic objectives for a school system, links these with the early and current histories of schooling, and reviews major theories on how school systems contribute to the transformation of society.
  • The book reviews major theories on how the organization and financing of schools and education systems affect their efficiency and effectiveness.
  • The book analyzes the processes by which different groups in society attempt to change school systems to better serve their interests.
  • The book proposes four major strategies to initiate a radical improvement of school systems.

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Schooling and Education

    • Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Process of Learning

    • Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
    Pages 25-53

  4. How can We Know if Anyone is learning (the curriculum)?

    • Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
    Pages 55-82

  5. Models of the Process of Teaching

    • Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
    Pages 83-119

  6. How to Get and Keep Effective Teachers

    • Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
    Pages 121-159

  7. The Educational Tasks of Every Society

    • Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
    Pages 161-185

  8. The History of National School Systems

    • Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
    Pages 187-214

  9. Instruction—and the Transformation of Society

    • Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
    Pages 215-248

  10. Models of the School as Organization

    • Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
    Pages 249-280

  11. Issues in How to Finance a School System

    • Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
    Pages 281-314

  12. The Builders and Shapers of School Systems

    • Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
    Pages 315-332

  13. The Process of Shaping a School System

    • Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
    Pages 333-356

  14. Strategies for Improvement of Instruction and Education

    • Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn
    Pages 357-378

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 379-379
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About this book

Learning to Educate: Proposals for the Reconstruction of Education in Developing Countries is a practical and strategic guide for education leaders and others who want to do more to improve the quality of curriculum, learning, teaching, and assessment. The book is also a philosophical guide that articulates and affirms the fundamental values and purposes of education in a rapidly changing world. It confronts us with the opportunity and the necessity to unravel bedrock assumptions and stimulate further discussion about the nature of teaching and learning. What does it take to change mindsets? And how do we bring about “reconstruction” without losing our groundings and bearings? The authors, Ernesto Schiefelbein and Noel McGinn, use the full weight of their extensive knowledge in education research, teaching, policy, and action, to argue that, in order to reconstruct quality education, we must begin by improving its foundation. The result is a seasoned and superbly articulated examination of the principles and practices of teaching and learning, which focuses on the crucial need of all children to learn how to learn. Innovative, cultured, and consistently captivating, this book is bold and, in the field of comparative and international education, unprecedented. “… Current and cutting-edge knowledge on critically important dimensions of effective teaching and learning …” – N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Cornell University “… A treasury of insights into the education challenge currently proposed by the UN global 2030 Agenda: universal quality learning …” – Kenneth King, University of Edinburgh “… A helpful roadmap to the essential questions facing educators today …” – Fernando M. Reimers, Harvard University
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Learning to Educate

  • Book Subtitle: Proposals for the Reconstruction of Education in Developing Countries

  • Authors: Ernesto Schiefelbein, Noel F. McGinn

  • Series Title: Personal/Public Scholarship

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-947-8

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-947-8Published: 13 April 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: CCCLXXX, 16

  • Topics: Education, general

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