
Composing a Teacher Study Group: Learning About Inquiry in Primary Classrooms (Hardback)
Richard J. Meyer (author), With Linda Brown (author), Elizabeth DeNino (author), Kimberly Larson (author), Mona McKenzie (author)- Temporarily unavailable
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Acknowledging and honoring the many faces of inquiry in schools, this book demonstrates the children's inquiry, their teachers' inquiry, and the place of that inquiry in schools. It lays out the ways in which inquiry is fundamental to teaching and learning in a democracy in which all of the members of the community have a voice in deciding curricular directions and ways of presenting learning. Teachers are presented as thinkers and learners, not merely as technicians enacting others' views of what is to be learned and when. Readers will find teachers dealing with the real issues of life in schools; they will see how teachers can use their existing situations as points of departure for their growth and their students' learning.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN: 9780805826999
Number of pages: 248
Weight: 612 g
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"Acknowledges that teacher inquiry is disruptive to the school community and that it challenges traditional hierarchy and authority patterns. But, in their place, such collaboration can bring newly motivated teachers and students as they create and recreate their own curriculum for learning....We get a real sense of the complexity of inquiry and how it occurs at different places in different ways--among children, among teachers, among university teachers and researchers."
-Gail Burnaford
National-Louis University
"Fits into a new genre of writing that draws together aspects of qualitative/narrative research with its concerns for contextualizing stories; process and inquiry oriented approaches to pedagogy which have burgeoned in recent years....and movements toward bottom-up staff development and teacher empowerment....Studies such as this one are valuable to academics in uncovering some of the complexity of teaching and the obstacles to collaboration, and are valuable to teachers and future teachers in helping them think about the problems and prospects for local change at the school level....This book can spark lots of powerful discussion of school change -- as it has obviously done for me."
-Michael O'Loughlin
Hofstra University
"Teachers, teacher educators, and staff development people will be very interested in this book. There is no other quite like it that I know of."
-Gary Manning
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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