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Learning Without Limits by Susan Hart; Annabelle Dixon; Mary Jane Drummond; Donald McIntyre is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Learning Without Limits about?

"The style and language used by the authors make the book readable and therefore a book that practising teachers can actively use as a guide to improve their practice ... it is amply demonstrated that teaching can and should be an activity whose primary focus is to enhance students' learning capacity and not limit it."--"Journal of Inservice Education." Why do some teachers insist on teaching without recourse to judgements about ability? What are the key principles on which they draw as they organize and provide for learning? What is the significance of their alternative approach for classrooms in the 21st century? This book explores ways of teaching that are free from determinist beliefs about ability. In a detailed critique of the practices of ability labelling and ability-focussed teaching, "Learning without Limits" examines the damage these practices can do to young people, teachers and the curriculum. Drawing on a research project at the University of Cambridge, the book features nine vivid case studies (from Year 1 to Year 11) that describe how teachers have developed alternative practices despite considerable pressure on them and on their schools and classrooms.; The authors

Author

Susan Hart; Annabelle Dixon; Mary Jane Drummond; Donald McIntyre

Publisher

Open University Press. The McGraw-Hill companies, Order Services, P.O. Box 182605, Columbus, OH 43218-2605. Tel: 800-262-4729; Fax: 614-759-3644; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/openupusa/

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780335225712

Subjects

Education, Management, Business