Teaching and Learning: The Essential Readings

Copyright © 2002 Blackwell Publishers Ltd

Teaching and Learning: The Essential Readings

Editor(s): Charles Desforges, Richard Fox

Published Online: 17 MAR 2008

Print ISBN: 9780631217480

Online ISBN: 9780470690048

DOI: 10.1002/9780470690048

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This is the first collection of key articles on the psychology behind educational attainment. It brings together in one volume for students a set of accessible but influential papers, representing the best classic and cutting edge work in the field.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xvi)

  2. Part I: Learning

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      Introduction to Part I (page 1)

  3. Part I: Learning - Expert Performance

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      Introduction (page 3)

    2. Chapter 1

      Attaining Excellence Through Deliberate Practice: Insights from the Study of Expert Performance (pages 4–37)

      K. Anders Ericsson

  4. Part I: Learning - Rhyme Language, and Reading

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      Introduction (pages 38–39)

    2. Chapter 2

      Rhyme, Language, and Children's Reading (pages 40–60)

      Peter Bryant, Morag MacLean and Lynette Bradley

  5. Part I: Learning - Learning and Development Introduction

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      Introduction (pages 61–62)

    2. Chapter 3

      The Rebirth of Children's Learning (pages 63–83)

      Robert S. Siegler

  6. Part I: Learning - Maths Learning

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      Introduction (pages 84–85)

    2. Chapter 4

      Candy Selling and Math Learning (pages 86–106)

      Geoffrey B. Saxe

  7. Part I: Learning - Learning in Higher Education

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      Introduction (page 107)

    2. Chapter 5

      Understanding Academic Performance at University: A Research Retrospective (pages 108–124)

      Noel J. Entitle

  8. Part II: Teaching

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      Introduction to Part II (pages 125–127)

  9. Part II: Teaching - Becoming a Tutor Inuoiuction

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      Introduction (pages 128–129)

    2. Chapter 6

      On Becoming a Tutor: Toward an Ontogenetic Model (pages 130–150)

      David Wood, Heather Wood, Shaaron Amsworth and Claire O'Malley

  10. Part II: Teaching - Teacher Expectations

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      Introduction (page 151)

    2. Chapter 7

      Teacher Expectations: Implications for School Improvement (pages 152–170)

      Colin Rogers

  11. Part II: Teaching - Accelerating Development

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      Introduction (pages 171–172)

    2. Chapter 8

      An Exploration of Long-Term Far-Transfer Effects Following an Extended Intervention Program in the High School Science Curriculum (pages 173–209)

      Philip Adey and Michael Shayer

  12. Part II: Teaching - Classroom Knowledge

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      Introduction (pages 210–211)

    2. Chapter 9

      Reconstructing Context: The Conventionalization of Classroom Knowledge (pages 212–227)

      Derek Edwards and Neil Mercer

  13. Part II: Teaching - Assessment and Learning

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      Introduction (page 228)

    2. Chapter 10

      The Role of Assessment in a Learning Culture (pages 229–253)

      Lome A. Shepard

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      Index (pages 254–272)

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