1st Edition

Children's Books for Grown-Up Teachers Reading and Writing Curriculum Theory

By Peter Appelbaum Copyright 2008
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Teachers and prospective teachers read children's books, but that reading is often done as a "teacher" – that is, as planning for instruction – rather than as a "reader" engaged with the text. Children’s Books for Grown-Up Teachers models the kind of thinking about teaching and learning – the sort of curriculum theorizing – accomplished through teachers’ interactions with the everyday... Read more

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction: Weirding and Poaching

Chapter 2 Poaching

Chapter 3 Weirding

Chapter 4 Vision Stinks

Chapter 5 Feed

Chapter 6 Harry Potter’s World

Chapter 7 Cyborg Selves

Chapter 8 Dark Matter and All that Jazz

Chapter 9 My Teacher is an Alien

Chapter 10 Criteria and Ways of Working, with Leif Gustavson

Chapter 11 Afterword: Zoom Re-zoom

Bibliography

 

Biography

Peter Appelbaum

"Appelbaum’s thinking is at the leading edge (perhaps several leading edges) of curriculum inquiry internationally."--Noel Gough, LaTrobe University, Australia   

"Peter Appelbaum has written an enormously erudite and important book about learning and teaching. Weaving together theories of curriculum, popular culture, literary engagement and pedagogy, he insightfully shows how deep insight emerges from the detours of teaching, and that the teacher’s task is not to specify curriculum but, rather, to occasion learning. This book is an intellectual tour de force that will be of great interest to both beginning and experienced teachers."--Dennis Sumara, University of British Columbia, Canada