Section I: Introduction<div><br/></div><div>1. Teaching as if children matter </div><div> </div><div>2. The place for Dewey’s constructivism of intelligent action in the American meritocracy of Thorndike </div><div><br/></div><div>3. The Confucian concept of learning </div><div><br/></div><div>Section II: Engaged Learning for Understanding: STEM Education</div><div><br/></div><div>4. Pedagogic doublethink: Scientific enquiry and the construction of personal knowledge under the English National Curriculum for science </div><div> </div><div>5. The practice turn in learning theory and in science education </div><div><br/></div><div> </div><div>6. How constructivism can boost success in STEM fields for women and minorities </div><div><br/></div><div> </div><div>Section III: Other Literacies</div><div><br/></div><div> </div><div>7. Reconceptualizing accountability: The ethical importance of expanding understandings of literacy and assessment for 21st century learners </div><div><br/></div><div> </div><div>8. Where DAP is due: Constructing community across difference with the Dialogue Arts Project</div><div><br/></div><div> </div><div>9. A constructing perspective on games in Education</div><div><br/></div><div>Section IV: Social Studies and Social Life</div><div><br/></div><div>10. Social studies, Common Core, and the threat to constructivist education</div><div><br/></div><div>11. Toward a resolution for teacher-student conflict: Crafting spaces of rigorous freedom with classroom debate </div><div><br/></div><div> </div><div>12. Activity settings as context for motivation: Reframing classroom motivation as dilemmas within and between activities </div><div><br/></div><div>13. Expeditionary learning, constructivism, and the emotional risks of open-ended inquiry</div><div><br/></div><div>Section V: Implications for the future of public education</div><div><br/></div><div>14. Learning, teaching, and social justice: Eleanor Duckworth’s perspective</div><div><br/></div><div> </div><div>15. How documentation of practice contributes to construction and reconstruction of an understanding of learning and teaching</div><div><br/></div><div> </div><div>16. Reimagining research and practice in education</div><div><br/></div><div> </div><div>17. School learning as compliance or creation </div>
