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Book SynopsisThis book is about the reflective journey of Sharada Gade, a teacher-practitioner who turned into a researcher-practitioner. The book holds many lessons, as the author talks about her collaboration with teachers and her experience in coauthoring research reports with them. She also discusses how to teach and implement instructional interventions. This practical knowledge is supported by perspectives from cultural historical activity theory (CHAT). Such a stance offers conceptual clarity to the book's lessons by drawing from across continents, institutions and academic fields. The culmination of these efforts makes for fascinating reading, one that sheds much needed theoretical-practical light for practitioners to take transformative action in their own classrooms.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables 1 Introducing This Book: Arts-and-Science-in-the-Making 1 Preamble 2 Human Action 3 Cultivating Humanity 4 Human Transformation 5 Artistic Imagination 6 Humanistic Mathematics 7 Arts-and-Science-in-the-Making: Coda 2 Classroom Teaching: Schools Are for Teachers Too 1 Preamble 2 Where the Mind Is without Fear 3 Human Beings Who Are Integrated 4 The Rollercoaster of Teaching 5 Personal Practical Knowledge 6 Vygotsky in Educational Psychology 7 Schools Are for Teachers Too: Coda 3 Doctoral Research: Ascending to the Concrete 1 Preamble 2 Cooperative Learning | zpd 3 Collaborative Classroom Practice 4 Cultural Tools | Development | Methodology 5 Artefacts | Mediated Action | Mediated Agency 6 Activity | as Unit of Analysis 7 Ascending to the Concrete: Coda 4 Wider CHAT Research: From Activity to Directivity 1 Preamble 2 Making Human Beings Human 3 Situated Learning 4 Functional Approach to Literacy 5 Funds of Knowledge 6 Rousing Minds to Life 7 From Activity to Directivity: Coda 5 Practitioner Research: Art and Life Are Not One 1 Preamble 2 Narrative Research 3 Action Research 4 Teacher Research 5 Life History Research 6 Person Centric Research 7 Art and Life Are Not One: Coda 6 Pedagogical Perspectives: The Tone of Teaching 1 Preamble 2 Contexts for Local Change 3 Lads and Ear’oles 4 Socio-Institutional Pedagogy 5 Pedagogical Categories 6 Leading Activity across Ages 7 The Tone of Teaching: Coda 7 Critical Perspectives: Dialectical Inquiry 1 Preamble 2 Critical Consciousness 3 Critical Ontology for Teachers 4 Hidden Curriculum of Work 5 Research as Praxis 6 Research as Bricolage 7 Dialectical Inquiry: Coda 8 Curriculum Studies: Schooling Is a Bold and Risky Means 1 Preamble 2 Teacher as Artist Is Researcher 3 Deliberating the Practical 4 Arts in Education 5 Cases – Portfolios – Tasks 6 Taking Intelligent Action 7 Schooling Is a Bold and Risky Means: Coda 9 Taking Transformative Action: Gaining from Triangulation 1 Preamble 2 Relational Knowing | The Equal to Sign 3 Relational Agency | Problem Posing 4 Cogenerative Dialogue | Making Measurements 5 Expansive Learning | Meaningful Activities 6 Forests and Trees | A Multilectic 7 Gaining from Triangulation: Coda 10 Epilogue: Practitioner-as-Artist-and-Scientist 1 Preamble 2 Promising CHAT Avenues 3 Short Summary of Key Findings 4 Nature of Action, Theory and Dialectic at Play 5 Practitioner-as-Artist-and-Scientist: Coda Subject Index Author Index
