Teaching and Learning in a Community of Thinking: The Third Model

✍ Scribed by Yoram Harpaz (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores a new pedagogical model called The Third Model, which places the encounter between the child and the curriculum at the center of educational theory and practice. The Third Model is implemented in an alternative classroom called Community of Thinking. Teaching and learning in a Community of Thinking is based on three "stations": the fertile question; research; and concluding performance. The essence of a Community of Thinking is the formation of a group of students and teachers who grapple with a troubling question to which they do not know the answer at the outset – and sometimes even at the end of their investigation. The Community of Thinking framework is supported by a whole school model – the Intel-Lect School. The model, or parts of it, is currently implemented in schools in Israel, England, Australia, and New Zealand.

The book suggests a new pedagogical narrative based on alternative "atomic pictures" of learning, teaching, knowledge, mind and the aim of education, and a systematic pedagogical practice based on this narrative.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Teaching and Learning in a Community of Thinking: The Context....Pages 1-55
Teaching and Learning in a Community of Thinking: The Theory....Pages 57-87
Teaching and Learning in a Community of Thinking: The Practice....Pages 89-138
An Inside Picture: Conversations with Teachers of Communities of Thinking....Pages 139-167
Back Matter....Pages 169-183

✦ Subjects

Learning & Instruction; Educational Philosophy