Schooling for Life: Reclaiming the Essence of Learning

by Jacqueline Grennon Brooks

Book Overview

If you believe that schools can go beyond test scores and standards to foster students' understanding of subjects, then here's a book that will renew your commitment to meaningful teaching and learning.

Using classroom observations and keen insights from research, one of education's foremost thinkers on constructivism explains

Why lessons and courses should involve students in answering challenging questions, resolving contradictions,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871206587
• ISBN13: 9780871206589
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: ASCD
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

School Messages Can Defeat the Multi-talented

As a former teacher and mother of a current one, I was so excited to read this book. Giving kids real life problems to solve makes so much sense and this book brings the concept to life beautifully. One issue that wasn't addressed as well, however, is the school system's expectation, especially at the upper high school level, that students will eventually need to zero in on just one interest. ...