1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822069903321

Autore

McCain Ted D. E.

Titolo

Teaching for tomorrow : teaching content and problem-solving skills / / Ted McCain ; foreword by Frank S. Kelly ; cover designer, Michael Dubowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-4833-5189-0

1-4522-0730-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (112 p.)

Disciplina

373.1102

Soggetti

High school teaching

Problem solving - Study and teaching (Secondary)

School-to-work transition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Chapter 1 - What Skills Will Students Need for the 21st Century?""; ""How I Discovered I was a “Highly Educated Useless Person�""; ""How I Discovered I was Producing “Highly Educated Useless People�""; ""School Skills""; ""Real-World Skills""; ""“Stand and Deliver� Lecture-Style Teaching""; ""The Myth of Postsecondary Education""; ""It�s Time to Rethink How We Teach""; ""Chapter 2 - Six Ways to Teach for Independent and Higher Learning""; ""Resisting the Temptation to “Tell�""

""Providing Context to Content""""Fostering Independent Thinking""; ""Moving to Problem Solving""; ""The Shift from Telling to Discovery""; ""Transforming Your Curriculum with Real-World Role Play""; ""The Role of Technology in Teaching for Tomorrow""; ""Progressively Withdrawing from Helping Students""; ""The Fear of Failure""; ""Reevaluating Evaluation""; ""Chapter 3 - Teaching Students How to Solve Problems""; ""The 4 Ds of Problem Solving""; ""Step One: Define""; ""Step Two: Design""; ""Step Three: Do""; ""Step Four: Debrief""; ""Teacher Evaluation of Process Skills""; ""Time Management""



""Project Management""""Research""; ""Project Design""; ""Teamwork""; ""Student Evaluation of Process Skills""; ""Putting it All Together""; ""A New Role for Teachers""; ""A New Way to Evaluate""; ""Evaluating the Process""; ""Evaluating Personal Attributes""; ""Making the Transition to a New Teaching Approach""; ""Preparing for Success in the 21st Century: Problem Solving, Role Playing, and Reality Simulation""; ""References""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

McCain concisely lays out the argument for preparing students for their world, guiding them to become independent and successful critical thinkers.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958627903321

Autore

Beasley Chris.

Titolo

Heterosexuality in theory and practice / / Chris Beasley, Heather Brook and Mary Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-24705-X

1-283-71138-9

0-203-10392-0

1-136-24706-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (139 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality ; ; 9

Altri autori (Persone)

BrookHeather

HolmesMary <1965->

Disciplina

306.76/4

Soggetti

Heterosexuality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Unpacking the monolith -- Nasty, boring and normative : heterosexuality within the conceptual map of gender and sexuality studies -- Hetero-doxy : conjugality and the measure of marriage -- Unknown paths : theorising changes in heterosexual intimacy -- Fields of practice and possible adventures -- The challenge of pleasure in preventive health and (hetero) sex education -- (Not) everyday sexual intimacy : on quiet subversions --



Thrills and spills : heterosex, "transgressive" adventures, and social change -- Conclusion: theorising social change from the realm of the dominant -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores heterosexualities in their complex and everyday expressions. It engages with theories about the intersection of sexuality with other markers of difference, and gender in particular. The outcome will productively upset equations of heterosexuality with heteronormativity and accounts that cast heterosexuality in ""sex critical, sex as danger"" terms. Queer/feminist 'pro-sex' perspectives have become prevalent in analyses of sexuality, but in these approaches queer becomes the site of subversive, transgressive, exciting and pleasurable sex, while heterosex, if mentioned at a