Constructivist Education in an Age of Accountability

Chapter 1 Teaching As if Children Matter

Chapter 2 The Place for Dewey’s Constructivism of Intelligent Action in the American Meritocracy of Thorndike

Chapter 3 The Confucian Concept of Learning

Chapter 4 Pedagogic Doublethink: Scientific Enquiry and the Construction of Personal Knowledge Under the English National Curriculum for Science

Chapter 5 The Practice Turn in Learning Theory and Science Education

Chapter 6 How Constructivism Can Boost Success in STEM Fields for Women and Students of Color

Chapter 7 Reconceptualizing Accountability: The Ethical Importance of Expanding Understandings of Literacy and Assessment for Twenty-First-Century Learners

Chapter 8 Where DAP Is Due: Constructing Community Across Difference with the Dialogue Arts Project

Chapter 9 A Constructivist Perspective on Games in Education

Chapter 10 Social Studies, Common Core, and the Threat to Constructivist Education

Chapter 11 Toward a Resolution for Teacher-Student Conflict: Crafting Spaces of Rigorous Freedom with Classroom Debate

Chapter 12 Activity Settings as Contexts for Motivation: Reframing Classroom Motivation as Dilemmas Within and Between Activities

Chapter 13 Expeditionary Learning, Constructivism, and the Emotional Risks of Open-Ended Inquiry

Chapter 14 Learning, Teaching, and Social Justice: Eleanor Duckworth’s Perspective

Chapter 15 How Documentation of Practice Contributes to Construction and Reconstruction of an Understanding of Learning and Teaching

Chapter 16 Reimagining Research and Practice in Education

Chapter 17 School Learning as Compliance or Creation