Classroom Issues

Volume III provides a focus on the classroom, pedagogy, curriculum and pupil experience. It covers relatively neglected areas of curriculum development, such as mathematics and technology, as well as the more familiar terrain of literature and drama. A particularly useful section deals with aesthetic education.

Sohan Modgil, Mal Leicester, Sohan Modgil

List of Contributors Editors' Foreword Mal Leicester, Celia Modgil and Sohan Modgil Part One: Classroom Practice 1. Value Issues in Developing Children's Thinking Michael Bonnett 2. Cooperative Learning, Values and Culturally Plural Classrooms David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson 3. Explicit Values in the Classroom: is it possible? Karen Caple 4. Growing Up Today: children talking about social issues Cathie Holden 5. Discussion of Values and the Value of Discussion Graham Haydon Part Two: Pedagogy 6. The Way Tests Teach: children's theories of how much testing is fair in school Theresa A. Thorkildsen 7. Cultural Diversity: concept and ideology as a pedagogical resource? Karsten Douglas 8. Motivating Students to Succeed: the work of Birmingham Compact 1988-94 Stephen Bigger 9. Mapping Schooling Types and Pedagogies Within Different Values Frameworks Jan Currie Part Three: Curriculum 10. The (Multicultural) Educational Value of the Aesthetic Dimension of Experience Janet Fergurson 11. Cultural Diversity in Art Education Helen Charman 12. Who Decides for Posterity? On the Concept of Classical Art Ruth Lorrand 13. The Use of Stories in Intercultural Education Piero Paolicchi 14. Aesthetics, The Arts and Post-School Education David Jones 15. Values and Visions: Values Education in a Pluralist Society Sally Burns 16. Tolerating the Alien:empathy in history education Marnie Hughes-Warrington 17. Language Education for a Pluralistic Society Elisabeth Gfeller 18. The Role of Values in Psychology: implications for a reformed curriculum Ben Bradley 19. Sexuality Education, Values and Cultural Diversity: international developments and questions arising Ronald W. Morris 20. Mathematics as Social Practice in a South African Workplace Context Dave Baker 21. Design and Technology Education for a Pluralistic Society Bernard Down