Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learning - 9781138137462

Taylor & Francis

This book is about an ecological-interpretive image of \""the basics.\"" Essays detailing everyday, lived events in classroom life are presented to help readers see beneath the surface ordinariness of these events to uncover and examine the underlying complex and contested meanings they contain. Readers are invited to imagine what would happen to our understanding of teaching and learning if we stepped away from the image of basics-as-breakdown under which education labors today. > \nThis book is about an ecological-interpretive image of \""the basics.\"" Essays detailing everyday, lived events in classroom life are presented to help readers see beneath the surface ordinariness of these events to uncover and examine the underlying complex and contested meanings they contain. Readers are invited to imagine what would happen to our understanding of teaching and learning if we stepped away from the image of basics-as-breakdown under which education labors today \u2013 an image of fragmen.