Full Description
First Published in 1998. A central paradox of American education today is that classrooms are often not conducive to learning. Young people who are bright, active participants in outside-of- school settings become disengaged or hostile in the classroom. Through detailed portrayals of innovative programs, Real Learning, Real Work demonstrates how students can learn to embrace what they learn in the classroom when they are able to use the intellectual tools of the sciences and the humanities to make sense of their outside experience.
Contents
CHAPTER 1Project-Based Learning: Spilling into LifeI. Stories from the FieldII. Design Principles for ProjectsCHAPTER 2Grounding Projects in Community Life: The Search for Utmost SatisfactionI. Stories from the FieldII. Connecting Community Service and Work-Based LearningCHAPTER 3Connecting School and WorkI. New Combinations of Learning and WorkII. Making Workplaces into Learning Environments: Learning Plans and Internship ProjectsIII. Making Schoolwork More Like Real Work: Senior Projects, Field Studies, and Career ExplorationIV. Developing Common Criteria for Real Work and SchoolworkCHAPTER 4Margaret Vickers -- Working to Learn: Building Science Understandings Through Work-Based LearningI. Stories from the FieldII. Science in School: Changing the SubjectCHAPTER 5Robert C. Riordan -- Hands On, Heads Up: Uncovering the Humanities in Work-Based Learning Programs I. Hands on Humanities at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School II. Rethinking Curriculum and Pedagogy: Design Principles III. Writing and Reflection in School-to-Work Programs IV. Work-Based Learning and the Humanities Standards CHAPTER 6 Lessons from the Field I. Design Issues for Schools II. The Big Picture of High School Reform
