Beyond Bulimic Learning: Improving Teaching in Further Education
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (675 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1782770739 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 196 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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"I highly recommend this riveting book as an informed source of wisdom for educator nourishment, practice improvement, dissent, and professional development." (Lynne Sedgmore CBE, Executive Director)
Frank Coffield is Emeritus Professor at the UCL Institute of Education.
This is how Frank Coffield introduces the term Bulimia Academica, which he treats every bit as seriously as its medical counterpart. Cristina Costa shows how students’ creativity can be released by using new technologies. And Walter Müller points to the damaging effects on German schools of politicians treating them as economic instruments in the global race, subjected to market discipline.Written in a clear, engaging, and thought-provoking style with a compelling evidence base, Beyond Bulimic Learning is much more than a ‘how to’ book to improve teaching in the adult and further education sector. It also explores in detail the central question: Can we transform classrooms and colleges without first transforming the role of the state?. John Webber introduces the notion of ‘studentship’ – the skills, behaviors, and beliefs that students need to become better at learning and thinking. Students are bingeing on large amounts of information and then, in government induced bouts of vomiting otherwise known as national tests, they spew it all out. Students resort to bulimic learning to cope with a testing regime that ministers in England would have you believe is robust and rigorous, but is in fact purgative and emeti