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Book Synopsis"The style and language used by the authors make the book readable and therefore a book that practising teachers can actively use as a guide to improve their practice ...it is amply demonstrated that teaching can and should be an activity whose primary focus is to enhance students' learning capacity and not limit it." Journal of Inservice Education
- Why do some teachers insist on teaching without recourse to judgements about ability?
- What are the key principles on which they draw as they organize and provide for learning?
- What is the significance of their alternative approach for classrooms in the 21st century?
This book explores ways of teaching that are free from determinist beliefs about ability. In a detailed critique of the practices of ability labelling and ability-focussed teaching,
Learning without Limits examines the damage these practices can do to young people, teachers and the curriculum. Drawing on a research project a
Table of ContentsForeword by Clyde Chitty
Acknowledgements
Part one: Beyond ability-based teaching and learning
Chapter 1: Ability, educability and the current improvement agenda
Chapter 2: What's wrong with ability labelling?
Chapter 3: The Learning Without Limits project: methods and approaches.
Part two: Accounts of the teachers' practices
Introduction
Chapter 4: Anne's approach: 'They all have their different ways to go'.
Chapter 5: Claire's approach: 'a thinking classroom'.
Chapter 6: Alison's approach: 'an open invitation.'
Chapter 7: Narinder's approach: 'the promise of tomorrow.'
Chapter 8: Patrick's approach: 'only connect.'
Chapter 9: Nicky's approach: 'Step back and look at the children.'
Chapter 10: Yahi's approach: 'raising the level of trust.'
Chapter 11: Julie's approach: 'access, security, success.'
Chapter 12: Non's approach: 'the bridge between values and practice.'
Part three: the core idea of transformability.
Chapter 13: Transforming the capacity to learn.
Chapter 14: Purposes and principles in practice.
Chapter 15: Young people's perspectives on learning without limits.
Chapter 16: Framing learning without limits teaching: contexts and retrospectives.
Chapter 17: Towards an alternative improvement agenda.
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