Learning Without Limits

Why do some teachers insist on teaching without recourse to judgements about ability? What are the key principles on which they draw as they organize and provide for learning? What is the significance of their alternative approach for classrooms in the 21st century? This book explores ways of teaching that are free from determinist beliefs about ability. In a detailed critique of the practices of ability labelling and ability-focussed teaching, Learning without Limits examines the damage these practices can do to young people, teachers and the curriculum. Drawing on a research project at the University of Cambridge, the book features nine vivid case studies (from Year 1 to Year 11) that describe how teachers have developed alternative practices despite considerable pressure on them and on their schools and classrooms. The authors analyze these case studies and identify the key concept of transformability as a distinguishing feature of these teachers' approach. They construct a model of pedagogy based on transformability: the mind-set that children's futures as learners are not pre-determined, and that teachers can help to strengthen and ultimately transform young people's capacity to learn through the choices they make. The book shows how transformability-based teaching can play a central role in constructing an alternative improvement agenda.  This book will inspire teachers, student teachers, lecturers and policy makers, as well as everyone who has a stake in how contemporary education and practice affect children's future lives and life chances.

Learning without Limits

Education & Teaching

Hart, Susan

Dixon, Annabelle

McIntyre, Donald

Drummond, Mary-Jane

Schools & Teaching

Open University Press

A series which encourages readers to take a closer look at some of the products which they see and use every day, by making collections, observations, and trying simple activities. A short section in each book describes how the product is made in the factory or on the farm, relating the manufacturing process to the children's own investigation. Each book uses simple language throughout and is illustrated with colour photographs. In this book some of the different varieties of paper are examined, showing how each kind is suited for the job it has to do. It explains how paper is made in a modern factory and shows children how to make and decorate their own paper.

Paper (Threads)

A C Black Publishers Ltd

Threads: Wool (Threads)

A series which encourages readers to take a closer look at some of the products which they see and use every day, by making collections, observations, and trying simple activities. How does a woollen jumper keep you warm? Where does angora wool come from? This book tells you how the wool from a sheep is made into a jumper. It explains how to tell the difference between wool and man-made fibres and has lots of ideas for things to do, including weaving and dyeing wool.

Science & Math

Threads: Clay (Threads)

From the series that looks at every day products and their uses, this book looks at all the objects made from clay, demonstrating the versatility of the material. From the clay pit to the kiln, industrial processes and studio techniques are explored.

Threads: Milk (Threads)

A&C Black

Explains how clay is dug from the ground and used to make many things from drain pipes to china ornaments.

Clay (Threads)

Children's Books

Garrett Educational Corp

<p>Describes how wool from a sheep is made into a sweater, explains how to tell the difference between wool and man-made fibers, and includes activities featuring weaving and dyeing wool</p>

Wool (Threads)

Science, Nature & How It Works

Joe's Car (Making Good Choices)

Literature & Fiction

Picture Window Books

Discusses paper, its uses, and its manufacture, and includes instructions for making paper and for making things with paper

Barber, Ed

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Learning without Limits

Paper (Threads)

Threads: Wool (Threads)

Threads: Clay (Threads)

Threads: Milk (Threads)

Paper (Threads)

Clay (Threads)

Wool (Threads)

Joe's Car (Making Good Choices)

Paper (Threads)