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• Prelude: What's in a Game
• ?1. Wasting Time.Interlude: Elcira Delgado's Show
• .2. The Game of School up Through the Grades.Interlude: Heidi Thomas's First Day of First Grade
• .3. Being Curious, Feeling Powerful, and Telling the World What You Know.Interlude: "Something So Good Wuz Neva So Deadly"
• .4. Contemplating Our State Religion, and the Types of Learners Who Attend School Within Its Shadow.Interlude: Abd Al-Maalik, High School History Teacher
• .5. Humanizing "School Talk" in Pursuit of Authentic Learning.Interlude: Nurturing Passionate Teachers: Making Our Work Transparent Randall Wisehart
• .6. Getting Stuck.Interlude: Fried's Joy and Misery Index for Educators
• .7. No Time to Waste.Interlude: Jenny O'Neil and City Year: Building a Beloved Community.Coda: A Lesson Before Teaching.Notes.Bibliography.Index.About the Author.Acknowledgments.
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Students play it, teachers perpetuate it, parents condone it, principals endorse it, and governments legislate it. The "game of school" is that familiar scenario where students' natural curiosity and desire to learn are replaced with a frantic rush (or a compliant shrug) to do the work, please the teacher, and get the grades. This game is easy to master, but exerts a high price. Can we afford to pay the price in wasted time and idle minds? In this compelling book, Robert L. Fried shows how we can change the rules of the game, reclaim and refocus the learning experience, and ultimately bring joy back into the classroom. The Game of School is filled with interviews and stories of teachers and students who are struggling to put the game of school behind them and engage in authentic learning. We experience the excitement of the first day of first grade; listen to urban teens discuss Shakespeare's Othello; and meet a college student who is beginning to question her long disengagement with learning. We are introduced to seven types of learners-from "go-getters" to "pluggers" to "rebels"-and find out how the game shapes their relationship to schooling and life.
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• Editor's Note and Acknowledgments Editor's Introduction: Seymour Sarason: Sculptor of Ideas Part I: The Teacher
• 1. Powerlessness Unanticipated
• 2. You Know More Than You Think and More Than They Give You Credit For
• 3. Why Teachers Must Also Be Psychologists
• 4. Teaching as a Lonely Profession
• 5. Power Relationships in the Classroom
• 6. Constitutional Issues in the Classroom
• 7. The "Nonreading" Professional Part II: The School
• 8. The School Culture and Processes of Change
• 9. Underestimating Complexity
• 10. Programmatic and Behavioral Regularities
• 11. Confronting Intractability
• 12. Conceptualizing the Educational System
• 13. Predictable Features and Problems in the Creation of Charter Schools and Other New Organizational Settings Part III: Students and Parents
• 14. Themes from Childhood and Adolescence
• 15. Columbine High School and Contexts of Productive Learning
• 16. An Overarching Goal for Students
• 17. Students as Teachers
• 18. Parental Involvement and Power Struggles: Applying the Political Principle to Relationships Within the School and Beyond
• 19. The Governors: Teachers and Parents Part IV: The Political and Policy Agenda
• 20. The Non-Learning, Non-Self-Correcting System
• 21. Are Schools Unique Organizations?
• 22. Our Expectations of Political Leaders
• 23. America's Only Serious Education President
• 24. What Should We Do? Part V: Tables of Contents from Sarason's Books on Education Educational Reform: A Self-Scrutinizing Memoir Questions You Should Ask About Charter Schools and Vouchers American Psychology and Schools Teaching as a Performing Art Charter Schools: Another Flawed Educational Reform? Crossing Boundaries: Collaboration, Coordination, and the Redefinition of Resources Political Leadership and Educational Failure How Schools Might Be Governed and Why Barometers of Change: Individual, Educational, and Social Transformation Revisiting "The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change" Parental Involvement and the Political Principle School Change: The Personal Development of a Point of View Psychoanalysis, General Custer and the Verdicts of History and Other Essays on Psychology in the Social Scene Letters to a Serious Education President You Are Thinking of Teaching? Opportunities, Problems, Realities The Care for Change: Rethinking the Preparation of Educators The Predictable Failure of Educational Reform The Challenge of Art to Psychology The Making of an American Psychologist: An Autobiography Schooling in America: Scapegoat and Salvation Educational Handicap, Public Policy, and Social History: A Broadened Perspective on Mental Retardation Work, Aging, and Social Change: Professionals and the One Life-One Career Imperative The Creation of Settings and the Future Societies The Culture o f the School and the Problem of Change The Psycho-Educational Clinic: Papers and Research Studies The Preparation of Teachers: A n Unstudied Problem in Education Anxiety in Elementary School Children: A Report of Research.
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Seymour Sarason, in the words of Carl Glickman, is 'one of America's seminal thinkers about public education'. For over four decades his has been a voice of much-needed skepticism about our plans for school reform, teacher training, and educational psychology. Now, for the first time, Sarason's essential writings on these and other issues are collected together, offering student and researcher alike with the range, depth, and originality of Sarason's contributions to American thinking on schooling. As we go from debate to debate on issues such as school choice, charter schools, inclusive education, national standards, and other problems that seem to drag on without solution, Sarason's critical stance on the folly of many of our attempts to fix schools has always had at the center a concern for the main players in our educational institutions: the students, the teachers and the parents.Any plans that cannot account for their well-being are doomed to failure. And in the face of such failure, the clarity of Sarason's vision for real educational success is a much-needed antidote to much of the rhetoric that currently passes for substantial debate. A wide-ranging and comprehensive selection of Sarason's most significant writings, "The Skeptical Visionary" should find a prized space on any student's or teacher's bookshelf. Author note: Robert Fried is Associate Professor in the School of Education at Northeastern University, and is the author of "The Passionate Teacher: A Practical Guide" and "The Passionate Learner: How Teachers and Parents Can Help Children Reclaim the Joy of Discovery". Seymour Sarason is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. He is the author of over forty books and is considered to be one of the most significant researchers in education and educational psychology in the country.
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• I. Opening Dedication to Richard T. Cox.- II. Estimation and Inferencing.- III. Signal Separation and Restoration.- IV. Applications in Physics.- V. Tomography and Imaging.- VI. Theoretical Physics.- VII. Inductive Logic Theory.- VIII. Tutorials.
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