Author(s): Margaret Robertson, Rodney Gerber
Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Research
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 295
contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 15
PART A: POPULAR CULTURE AND INFORMATION
AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES......Page 20
Introduction......Page 22
Opening Pandora’s box......Page 25
Children’s learning through geo-information technologies......Page 39
Language, discourse and popular culture......Page 57
PART B: PLACE, SPACE AND SELF IDENTITIES......Page 71
Introduction......Page 73
Developing a sense ofcommunity and place indifferent cultural settings and environments......Page 76
Educating Brazilian street children......Page 93
Architecture, body and wilderness......Page 108
PART C: ALTERNATE PEDAGOGIES......Page 121
Introduction......Page 123
Listen to them think: Reflections on inquiry, philosophy and dialogue......Page 126
Theoretical context and issues of instructional design: Learning and problem solving in web environments......Page 142
The rise and rise of computers in education......Page 158
PART D: SPACE, COGNITION AND MAPPING......Page 173
Introduction......Page 175
Place and space learning: The ‘play pen’ of young children......Page 178
On class-teacher students’ views of the future......Page 193
Children’s knowing through map constructs of ‘their’ world......Page 208
PART E: THE ARTS, AESTHETICS AND ENVIRONMENT......Page 227
Introduction......Page 229
Children and drama: Knowing differently......Page 232
This land we walk: Children’s paintings and writings......Page 247
Leisure places – self, space and others......Page 259
Child-centred pedagogies – a final comment......Page 281
Subject Index......Page 287
Author Index......Page 290