Rethinking Middle Years: Early Adolescents, Schooling and Digital Culture

ISBN-13: 9781741149272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 204 str.

Victoria Carrington

Opis

Focusing on the need to move beyond developmentally based models to see the middle years pedagogy in historical, social, economic, and political contexts, this referencecomparesresearch from Australiato theinternational experience, andemphasizes the importance of understanding the risk ofsociety's and young peoples' immersion in digital technologies and consumer culture. Teachers and schools can use this understanding to work more effectively with early adolescents, andpolicy-makers and education leaders can reshape the middle years reform agenda to improve professional practice and student outcomes.
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Spis treści

Preface

1. Changing contexts

2. Constructions of the young

3. Digital cultures and early adolescents

4. What is middle years provision?

5. Australia: Creating a space for the middle years

6. Middle years provision in Australia

7. Key issues in classroom provision

8. Effective middle years practice

9. Moving forward

References

Index

O autorze

Victoria Carrington is Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Education at the University of Plymouth. She has also taught at the University of Queensland, and has published widely on emergent literacies, new technologies and early adolescent cultures.