Languages of Learning: How Children Talk, Write, Draw, Dance, and Sing Their Understanding of the World
(Part of the Language and Literacy Series)
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Book Overview
In ""The Languages of Learning"" Karen Gallas offers a new approach to understanding how young children in early and elementary grades communicate their knowledge of the world and the ways in which that kind of understanding can transform the educative process. In addition to expanding the traditional definition of narrative to include all forms of expression, the book also offers an original conceptualisation of what a classroom community is and how it is shaped. The book introduces new models for learning about science as well as an argument for, and description of, how the arts can transform the curriculum. Finally, Gallas describes, first hand, the process of doing teacher research, and what distinguishes that process from other kinds of educational research.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807733059
ISBN13:9780807733059
Release Date:June 1994
Publisher:Teachers College Press
Length:168 Pages
Weight:0.64 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.2" x 8.9"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
Well, I haven't been so struck by a book in a LONG TIME! You really must read this one. It's even better than her other great work, Talking Their Way Into Science, which focused on the role of open-ended "science talks" in her 1-2 classroom. This one ranges throughout the elementary curriculum demonstrating Ms. Gallas' extraordinary gift for insight at the same time as arguing for the efficacy of researching one's own practice as a teacher. There are chapters on the everyday mundane things -- like sharing time, dealing with those frustrating "bad boys" that mess up the class for everyone else, observing a new immigrant student becoming part of the classroom community -- that help us see how they are crucial learning experiences for the teacher and the students. There are chapters on science and arts education, that expand our notions of what these realms of elementary curriculum might mean. And there is throughout a powerful introduction for all of us to Bakhtin and other theorizers on language and learning that makes such literature acessible and applicable to our day-to-day life in the classroom.
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