Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learning (Paperback)

Contents: Foreword. Preface. D.W. Jardine, P. Clifford, S. Friesen, Introduction: An Interpretive Reading of "Back to the Basics." P. Clifford, S. Friesen, A Curious Plan: Managing on the Twelfth. P. Clifford, S. Friesen, D.W. Jardine, "Whatever Happens to Him Happens to Us": Reading Coyote Reading the World. D.W. Jardine, The Profession Needs New Blood. D.W. Jardine, P. Rinehart, Relentless Writing and the Death of Memory in Elementary Education. P. Clifford, S. Friesen, Hard Fun: Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-First Century. S. Friesen, P. Clifford, D.W. Jardine, Meditations on Classroom Community and the Intergenerational Character of Mathematical Truth. D.W. Jardine, S. Friesen, A Play on the Wickedness of Undone Sums, Including a Brief Mytho-Phenomenology of "X" and Some Speculations on the Effects of Its Peculiar Absence in Elementary Mathematics Education. D.W. Jardine, "Because It Shows Us the Way at Night": On Animism, Writing, and the Re-Animation of Piagetian Theory. P. Clifford, S. Friesen, The Transgressive Energy of Mythic Wives and Wilful Children: Old Stories for New Times. P. Clifford, S. Friesen, Landscapes of Loss: On the Original Difficulty of Reading and Interpretive Research. D.W. Jardine, A. LaGrange, B. Everest, "In These Shoes Is the Silent Call of the Earth": Meditations on Curriculum Integration, Conceptual Violence, and the Ecologies of Community and Place. D.W. Jardine, P. Clifford, S. Friesen, Scenes From Calypso's Cave: On Globalization and the Pedagogical Prospects of the Gift.