Jean C Mcphail
Biographic Data
| ID | 764523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean C Mcphail |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean C |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcphail |
| SIGNATURE | MCPHAIL J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Democracy at work in and through experimental schooling
Through an exploration of two experimental schools, Oruaiti (1950s) and Discovery 1 (2000s), we aim to understand the socio-political contexts that create spaces for experimentation and examine their impact on mainstream schooling. Caught between competing, often contradictory, discourses such experiments struggle between the 'regeneration' and 'reproduction' functions of schooling. However, we argue that while they have limited impact on mainstr…
Minds and more
Creating Partnerships for Complex Learning
This is a story of 10 middle school students identified with learning disabilities who, along with their teacher, worked together in a human-form sculpture apprenticeship. Their participation was based on their expressed interests in art. Within the apprenticeship, designed and conducted as a studio art class and led by a professional sculptor, the apprentices confronted and solved a series of artistic problems as they each created two sculptures…
The Role of Interest in Fostering Sixth Grade Students’ Identities As Competent Learners
The combined works of John Dewey and Jerome Bruner provide a framework spanning a century of educational thought which can inform curriculum decisions concerning students’ educational development, especially for middle school students whose waning of motivation toward school has been well documented by researchers and has long concerned parents and teachers. This framework, combined with recent contributions of motivation and interest researchers…
The Role of Interest in Fostering Sixth Grade Students’ Identities As Competent Learners
The combined works of John Dewey and Jerome Bruner provide a framework spanning a century of educational thought which can inform curriculum decisions concerning students’ educational development, especially for middle school students whose waning of motivation toward school has been well documented by researchers and has long concerned parents and teachers. This framework, combined with recent contributions of motivation and interest researchers…
Creating Partnerships for Complex Learning
This is a story of 10 middle school students identified with learning disabilities who, along with their teacher, worked together in a human-form sculpture apprenticeship. Their participation was based on their expressed interests in art. Within the apprenticeship, designed and conducted as a studio art class and led by a professional sculptor, the apprentices confronted and solved a series of artistic problems as they each created two sculptures…
The Role of Interest in Fostering Sixth Grade Students’ Identities As Competent Learners
The combined works of John Dewey and Jerome Bruner provide a framework spanning a century of educational thought which can inform curriculum decisions concerning students’ educational development, especially for middle school students whose waning of motivation toward school has been well documented by researchers and has long concerned parents and teachers. This framework, combined with recent contributions of motivation and interest researchers…
Creating Partnerships for Complex Learning
This is a story of 10 middle school students identified with learning disabilities who, along with their teacher, worked together in a human-form sculpture apprenticeship. Their participation was based on their expressed interests in art. Within the apprenticeship, designed and conducted as a studio art class and led by a professional sculptor, the apprentices confronted and solved a series of artistic problems as they each created two sculptures…
Minds and more
Democracy at work in and through experimental schooling
Through an exploration of two experimental schools, Oruaiti (1950s) and Discovery 1 (2000s), we aim to understand the socio-political contexts that create spaces for experimentation and examine their impact on mainstream schooling. Caught between competing, often contradictory, discourses such experiments struggle between the 'regeneration' and 'reproduction' functions of schooling. However, we argue that while they have limited impact on mainstr…
Pedagogy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Education and Critical Thinking Development (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Apprenticeship (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art Education and Development (1 work)