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Quiet Riot

The Culture of Teaching and Learning in Schools
  • ISBN-13: 9781610483094
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
  • By Diane Hoffman
  • Price: AUD $119.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/02/2016
  • Format: Hardback 124 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Education [JN]
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Quiet Riot offers an anthropological critique of teaching and learning in two U.S. high schools over a twenty-seven year period. Based on the author's experiences shadowing two average students in 1983 and 2009, it presents detailed observations that powerfully capture the reality of student experiences in school. Despite many changes in schools over this near thirty year period, observations show a remarkable continuity in what goes on in classrooms. This is because the culture of teaching and learning in classrooms has remained relatively unchanged. While teachers are sincere, they also undermine their own efforts in a variety of ways. Students are disengaged not because they do not care, but because the instruction they receive systematically prevents them from engaging at a deep intellectual level with subject matter. Observations in high schools are supplemented with elementary school observations that demonstrate the early trajectories of disengagement that capture many students. The book illustrates the powerful patterning of the culture of teaching and learning in schooling that undermines the true goals of an authentic education.
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter I-Quiet Riot: What is Really Done in Schools Chapter II-Thirst for Knowledge Chapter III-Paper Chase Chapter IV-Schooling Ordinary Violence: Rebel Without a Cause Chapter V-From Quiet Riot to Rebel Without a Cause: Continuity and Change Chapter VI-Elementary Madness Chapter VII-Towards Authentic Schooling References
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