Teaching for Understanding

Leading experts on teaching and policy research provide concrete illustrations of what teaching for understanding entails.

1. Introduction: New Visions of Teaching(Milbrey W. McLaughlin,Joan E. Talbert) Part One: Views from the Classroom 2. Collaboration as a Context for Joining Teacher Learning withLearning about Teaching(Deborah L. Ball, Sylvia S. Rundquist) 3. Learning to Hear Voices: Inventing a New Pedagogy of TeacherEducation(Ruth M. Heaton, Magdalene Lampert) 4. Deeply Rooted Change: A Tale of Learning to TeachAdventurously(Suzanne M. Wilson with Carol Miller and CarolYerkes) 5. Creating Classroom Practice Within the Contexts of aRestructured Professional Development School(Sarah J. McCarthey,Penelope L. Peterson) Part Two: Enabling Teaching for Understanding 6. Understanding Teaching in Context(Joan E. Talbert, Milbrey W.McLaughlin) 7. Pedagogy and Policy(David K. Cohen, Carol A. Barnes) 8. Conclusion: A New Pedagogy for Policy?(David K. Cohen, Carol A.Barnes)