Effective Teaching and Learning: Teachers' and Pupils' Perspectives

This book examines how teachers and students actually go about their classroom business. It carefully avoids the assumptions of policy-makers and theorists about what ought to be happening and focuses on what is happening. In doing so, Cooper and McIntyre offer a detailed look at how teachers are responding to the National Curriculum; a unique insight into secondary school students as learners and a grounded analysis of teaching and learning strategies drawing on the psychological theories of Bruner and Vygotsky.