Written by headteachers, teachers and the editors, this study compares actual teaching and learning experiences in schools in the UK, Sweden, Japan, Germany and the Czech Republic with a view to improving schools.;Drawing on the self-evaluation project ("the learning school"), which involved students reporting on the quality of learning and teaching, school ethos and pupil experiences internationally, much evidence of pupil disengagement, boredom and poor teaching styles is exposed. This book offers insight into redressing the balance.
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CONTRIBUTORS: John MacBeath, Hidenori Sugimine
EAN: 9780415258258
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 498 g
HEIGHT: 229 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-10-24
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GENRE: EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Evaluation & Assessment, EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement, EDUCATION / Leadership
WIDTH: 152 cm
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United Kingdom, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, Czechia, Japan, Philosophy and theory of education, Educational administration and organization, Schools and pre-schools
'Self-Evaluation in the Global Classroom is an extraordinary and uplifting read ... This is an intriguing and many-sided tales, told partly by the students, partly by the teachers and the students they observed and partly by two educationalists.' - Times Educational Supplement'The first important aspect of the book, and it is electric, is the status it accords to the views of students ... It is this according of status, of importance, to the student voice that is John MacBeath's gift to us ... Classroom layout, the structure of the school day, how subjects and lessons are perceived, affective measures of schools, how different students react to lessons, how different lessons differ - it is all here. Yet, in a way, this is all mere illustration of the power of the student view to inform teaching and learning. That is what this book is about and why you should buy it.' - Improving Schools'an original approach to seeing what is going on in schools. It has pressed the role of the observer and reporter in a culturally challenging way on to fresh young eyes and minds ... The book deserves to be read once by a whole range of people involved in the education enterprise and we should all be aware of the existence of this growing adventurous international project. The book is a great testimony to the achievement of those who dreamed up the idea, got funding for it and for those who participated in it.' - British Journal of Educational Studies
John MacBeath is a Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.
