Engaging Minds: Changing Teaching in Complex Times

by Brent Davis, Dennis Sumara, Rebecca Luce-Kapler

Engaging Minds is an introduction to current interdisciplinary studies of teaching and learning to teach. It offers practical suggestions for teachers in the context of critical examinations of assumptions and norms that frame formal education. Topics New in this Written for undergraduate students in teacher education, experienced teachers, and graduate students, this is an ideal text for courses in curriculum and instruction, learning theory, social foundations of education, and human development. It is also an excellent companion volume for any subject-specific teaching methods course.

Genres: School

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Kyle · Rating 5 out of 5]

If any book comes close to matching the omniscience of the Book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, this well-designed book on learning and teaching would be it. All the possibilities it presents to teachers, specifically aimed at pre-service teachers, and the emergence of new ways of thinking, inspired largely by the new technologies available to students in the 21st century, are cleverly connected throughout the text.

[Liberty Laferrière]

I finished it.

[Randy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was indeed engaging. Davis, Sumara, and Luce-Kapler give an overview of different theories of learning while interweaving narratives of classroom practice that demonstrate applications of the concepts. The margins are filled with interesting tidbits and object lessons. The authors identify valuable elements from several different learning theories and advocate complexity thinking as it applies to educational philosophy. I highly recommend this book to any teacher and particularly as an introduction to those interested in the potential influence of complexity theory on education.

[Jess · Rating 1 out of 5]

Basically, a disaster.

[Ryan · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's rarely a good sign a Prof assigns his own book, and this lives up to that warning

[Stephanie Loomis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not great SEL. Not awful.

[Linh]

I was highly UNENGAGED.