Full Description
Engaging the Disengaged addresses strategies and models of immersive teaching and learning that lead to successful schooling outcomes. The new Australian Curriculum emphasises the importance of improved educational participation. This book will equip pre-service teachers with the tools and strategies they need to successfully implement these priorities. Drawing together a diverse range of experts, this book offers innovative ways of thinking about student engagement. Addressing education across early primary, middle and secondary school levels, it explores how differences in culture, sexuality and wealth can alienate students, and examines challenges faced by schools in rural, remote and high-poverty settings. It also offers new ideas for engaging students in subjects such as mathematics, physical education and the arts. Contemporary, real-life case studies help connect theory to practice. Each chapter also includes learning objectives, further reading suggestions and a reflective closure, as well as a set of strategies for invigorating disadvantaged students.
Contents
Foreword: are the engaged really engaged? Shirley Steinberg; Introduction: exclusion: a habit that's hard to kick Roger Slee; Part I. The Digital Divide as a Tool for Inclusion: 1. Accommodating new learning in different school cultures Greg Neal; 2. Technology and social inclusion: rethinking the digital divide Nicola Yelland; Part II. Engagement in the Early Years: 3. The early years: reconnecting families with preschool education Andrea Nolan; Part III. Curriculum-Based Engagement: 4. Arts education: do the arts really matter? Tarquam McKenna; 5. Bringing joy and success to students and teachers through student-centered teaching of mathematics Colleen Vale and Sharon Livy; 6. Physical education: promoting healthy living in the classroom Anthony Watt; 7. Literacy: who needs books? There not 'kewl' Mark Vicars; Part IV. Agents of Change and Student Wellbeing: 8. Fostering collaborative partnerships: one school's approach Marcelle Cacciattolo; 9. Natural environments for learning: effecting change in classrooms and the community Cathryn Carpenter and Peter Burridge; 10. Sexualities: gays and lesbians as outsiders? Mark Vicars and Tarquam McKenna; 11. Indigenous Australia: ontologies, epistemologies and pedagogies Davina Woods; 12. Positive education: pathways to achieving social and academic success Jeanne Carroll and Marcelle Cacciattolo; Conclusion: Creating purposeful, optimistic learning engagements Tarquam McKenna.
