Full Description
In I Can Learn from You, Michael Reichert and Richard Hawley - the authors of Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys - set out to probe deeply into the relational dynamics that help boys succeed as learners. Drawing on interviews with students and teachers in thirty-five schools across six countries, they examine the particular ways boys extend and receive empathy - modes of interaction that remain consistent across a wide range of schools, teachers, countries, and cultures. The book shows how teachers can help boys form productive learning relationships and how schools can support the development of teachers' relational capacities. At the heart of the book is the belief that educators must - and can - put relational teaching at the centre of school life.
Contents
CONTENTS
Introduction 1
1 Listening to Boys and Their Teachers 7
2 Boys' Underperformance in School 15
3 The Promise of Relational Teaching 27
4 Conveying Mastery and Maintaining Standards 41
5 Reaching Out and Responding 55
6 Being a Personal Advocate 73
7 Establishing Common Ground 93
8 Accommodating Opposition 107
9 When Boys Cannot Relate 121
10 When Teachers Cannot Relate 141
11 Becoming a Relational School 165
Appendix 177
Notes 187
Acknowledgments 193
About the Authors 195
Index 197
