Structure and Improvisation in Creative Teaching
by Edited by R. Keith SawyerFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-06-27
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Draws on studies of creative, improvised performance to identify practical advice for teachers who wish to become more creative professionals.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| What makes good teachers great? The artful balance of structure and improvisation | |
| The Teacher Paradox | |
| Professional improvisation and teacher education: opening the conversation | |
| Creativity, pedagogic partnerships, and the improvisatory space of teaching | |
| Improvising within the system: creating new teacher performances in inner city schools | |
| Teaching for creativity with disciplined improvisation | |
| The Learning Paradox | |
| Taking advantage of structure to improvise in instruction: examples from elementary school classrooms | |
| Breaking through the communicative cocoon: improvisation in secondary school foreign language classrooms | |
| Improvising with adult English language learners | |
| Productive improvisation and collective creativity: lessons from the dance studio | |
| The Curriculum Paradox | |
| How 'scripted' materials might support improvisational teaching: insights from the implementation of a reading comprehension curriculum | |
| Disciplined improvisation to extend young children's scientific thinking | |
| Improvisational understanding in the mathematics classroom | |
| Conclusion: presence and the art of improvisational teaching | |
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