innovations in Learning

Abstract

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Part I: Education Outside the Classroom. L. Schauble, D.B. Beane, G.D. Coates, L.M.W. Martin, P.V. Sterling, Outside the Classroom Walls: Learning in Informal Environments. L. Flower, Collaborative Planning and Community Literacy: A Window on the Logic of Learners. C. Juel, Learning to Learn from Effective Tutors. P. Pedraza, J. Ayala, Motivation as an Emergent Issue in an After-School Program in El Barrio. Part II: Learning Inside the Classroom. B. Warren, A.S. Rosebery, This Question is Just Too, Too Easy! Students' Perspectives on Accountability in Science. E.A. Silver, Moving Beyond Learning Alone and in Silence: Observations from the QUASAR Project Concerning Communication in Mathematics Classrooms. M. Resnick, Toward a Practice of Constructional Design. J. Minstrell, V. Stimpson, A Classroom Environment for Learning: Guiding Students' Reconstruction of Understanding and Reasoning. G.W. McDiarmid, Challenging Prospective Teachers' Understandings of History: An Examination of a Historiography Seminar. M. Lamon, T. Secules, A.J. Petrosino, R. Hackett, J.D. Bransford, S.R. Goldman, Schools for Thought: Overview of the Project and Lessons Learned from One of the Sites. A.L. Brown, J.C. Campione, Psychological Theory and the Design of Innovative Learning Environments: On Procedures, Principles, and Systems. Part III: Changing Environments for Education. H.M. Levin, Accelerated Schools After Eight Years. J.P. McDonald, Below the Surface of School Reform: Vision and Its Foes.