This book focuses on the talk of science classrooms and in particular on the ways in which the different kinds of interactions between teachers and students contribute to meaning making and learning. Central to the text is a new analytical framework for characterising the key features of the talk of school science classrooms. This framework is based on sociocultural principles and links the work of theorists such as Vygotsky and Bakhtin to the day-to-day interactions of contemporary science classrooms.
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The spectacular but unsettling reality of faster cycles of change,
breakdown of traditional values and institutions, and many other
symptoms of technological innovation-what makes these necessary is the
subject of this thought-provoking book. All the good intentions of
educators, scholars, politicians, and policymakers will fail if they do
not recognize why literacy as a dominant framework of human activity is
no longer adequate. The current dynamics of human activity is without
precedent. It is not the result of technology, but of deeper forces of
change. The answer to the failure of many seemingly eternal
institutions-government, family, education-is not improvement in the
traditional sense, but a fundamentally new perspective. The digital
paradigm underlying the new civilization provides a basis for this
perspective. But it will be misapplied unless understood within the
broader framework of the driving forces behind human activity.
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Neoliberalism--the doctrine
that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a
guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and
practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a
wide audience, David Harvey, author of The New Imperialism and
The Condition of Postmodernity, here tells the political-economic story
of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the
world stage. Through critical engagement with this history, he
constructs a framework, not only for analyzing the political and
economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the
prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by
many oppositional movements.
Though classroom instructional strategies should clearly be based on
sound science and research, knowing when to use them and with whom is
more of an art. In The Art and Science of Teaching: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Instruction,
author Robert J. Marzano presents a model for ensuring quality teaching
that balances the necessity of research-based data with the equally
vital need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of individual
students.
Intelligent Business uses informative and up-to-date authentic material from the Economist. It is fully benchmarked alongside the BEC exam suite and Common European Framework.