Children's Books for Grown-Up Teachers: Reading and Writing Curriculum Theory

by Appelbaum Peter and Peter Appelbaum

Book Overview

Teachers and prospective teachers read children's books, but that reading is often done as a "teacher" - that is, as planning for instruction - rather than as a "reader" engaged with the text. Children's Books for Grown-Up Teachers models the kind of thinking about teaching and learning - the sort of curriculum theorizing - accomplished through teachers' interactions with the everyday materials of teaching. It starts with children's books, branches...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415964830
• ISBN13: 9780415964838
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"