Developments in Learning and Assessment

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Ways of knowing: learning as a constructive activity, Ernst von Glaserfeld; cognitive development - learning and the mechanisms of change, Eric Lunzer; the transactional self, Jerome Bruner; the politics of education, Paulo Freire; learning - the interactive re-creation of knowledge, Hermain Sinclair; possible castles, Jerome Bruner; problem solving and education, Thomas Andre; knowledge as action, Douglas Barnes. Part 2 Learning in domains: mathematics education in its cultural context, Alan J.Bishop; places for evolving autobiography - English classes at work in the curriculum, Claire Woods; cognitive science and science education, Susan Carey; what is the point of group discussion in mathematics, Celia Hoyles; reading - caught of taught? - some issues involved in changed approaches to the teaching of reading, Marian Whitehead; the pre-vocational curriculum - a review of the issues involved, Madeleine J.Atkins; national writing project - a story of curriculum change, Pam Czerniewska. Part 3 Changing pedagogy: constructivism in the classroom - enabling conceptual change by words and deeds, Mike Watts and Di Bentley; three approaches to teaching and learning in education - behavioural, Piagetian and information-processing, Emanuel J.Mason et al; developmental psychology and the child-centred pedagogy - the insertion of Piaget into early education, Valerie Walkerdine; Vygotsky's contribution to pedagogical theory, James Britton; the enterprise we are part of - learning to teach, Arthur Applebee; changing perspectives on teaching-learning processes in the post-Plowden era, Neville Bennett. Part 4 Assessing learning: second game - a school's-eye view of intelligence, Robert J.Sternberg; getting the intelligence controversy knotted, Graham Richards; learning and assessment, George Tolley; measurement or assessments - a fundamental dichotomy and its educational implications, Glenn Futcher; the validity of assessments, Desmond L.Nuttall; assessment purpose and learning in mathematics education, Brenda Denvir; records of achievement - report of the National Evaluation of pilot schemes - PRAISE (The Pilot Records of Achievement in Schools Education) team; graded assessment projects - similarities and differences, Margaret Brown; APU language assessment - some practical consequences of a functionally orientated approach, Janet White; gender and assessment in science, Patricia Murphy.