Making Space for Active Learning: The Art and Practice of Teaching

This powerful collection will inspire new and veteran teachers to make space for childrens interests, for teaching as relational and intellectual work, and for new insights and ideas. The authors introduce the Prospect Centers Descriptive Review of Practice, a collaborative inquiry process that provides an opportunity for teachers to examine their practice and gain new perspectives from other participants. The contributors to this volume respond to each childs modes of thinking as they develop curriculum or find wiggle room in curricula they are given. By demonstrating how it is possible to pursue careful knowledge of craft, this book offers ways of teaching that allow for continuing growth and change.

Book Features:

• An inquiry methodology that assists teachers to reflect on the classroom and develop curriculum that responds to childrens interests and needs.
• Specific examples of a variety of sources teachers can draw on and think about to improve practice.

A method of data collection that can inform practice while allowing for the unevenness, messiness, and essential humanness of teaching and learning