LANGUAGE. THE LEARNER AND THE SCHOOL (map)

Language, the Learner and the School

Education & Teaching

Rosen, Harold

Barnes, Douglas

Britton, James

Schools & Teaching

Penguin??Books

First published in 1995, Communication and Learning Revisited focuses on the importance and benefits of group dialogue in cooperative learning. The book explores the use of group dialogue among students across a variety of disciplines and demonstrates how collaboration helps them to understand different concepts. It outlines cognitive and social strategies that can enhance collaboration and presents collaborative talk's role in learning, setting forth a theoretical framework that draws upon the ideas of writers such as Vygotsky and Bakhtin. Communication and Learning Revisited will appeal to those with an interest in teaching methods, classroom dialogue, and cooperative learning.

Communication and Learning Revisited: Making Meaning Through Talk (Routledge Revivals)

Science & Math

Todd, Frankie

Behavioral Sciences

Routledge

Versions of English

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Heinemann

Communication and learning in small groups (Routledge direct editions)

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<li> Swales, ponds, dams, hugelkultur, net-and-pan systems, spate irrigation, and more </li>
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<li> Assessing site needs and suitability </li>
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</ul>
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 Douglas Barnes is a permaculture designer trained in Australia by Bill Mollison and Geoff Lawton. He has designed and built earthworks in North America, Japan, and Andra Pradesh, India. He lives in Tweed, Ontario in a passive solar house he designed and built, and he blogs at permaculturerelections.com.

The Permaculture Earthworks Handbook: How to Design and Build Swales, Dams, Ponds, and other Water Harvesting Systems

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

New Society Publishers

A reissue of this classic study of language in the classroom, as carried out by Douglas Barnes and with its implications commented on at length by James Britton and Mike Torbe.

Language, the Learner, and the School

Torbe, Mike

In From Communication to Curriculum, Douglas Barnes argues that the kind of personal and conversational interaction that exists between teacher and pupil is a crucial aspect of the learning process. Using transcribed conversations from the classroom, he analyzes the different styles of discourse in use, showing the importance of relatively unstructured conversations in the work of schooling. Barnes rejects the view that some children fail in school because they have difficulty with language, emphasizing instead the inhibiting effects of rigid and formalized methods of teaching which are often in opposition to the natural patterns of inquiry which children develop outside school.

From Communication to Curriculum

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This book differs from other books on the topic of cooperative learning because its central focus is on group dialogue.

Communication and Learning Revisited

Practical Curriculum Study (Routledge Library Editions: Curriculum)

Originally published in 1982. This book presents a view of how the curriculum should be studied and a model for the teaching of curriculum theory. It looks at each issue clearly and briefly, and without dogmatism, and offers a wide range of practical tasks. These tasks require readers to reflect upon and analyse their preconceptions about teaching; to suggest ways of planning work for their pupils and trying it out; to analyse and evaluate textbooks and worksheets; to study other teachers in action; and to consider alternative ways of organising the curriculum. The ordering is designed to encourage teachers to form systematic strategies for thinking about the curriculum, and to lead to the discussion of matters of principle as a basis for practical choices.

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