This book is based on the idea that instruction carries in-built risks, and instructional practices can be counterproductive unless used with care. Referencing a wide range of approaches to increasing effectiveness, Instructional Risk provides an explanation of why some forms of instruction are less powerful than they should be. Elaborating on rather than advising against these forms of instruction, it illustrates how teachers can use instructional practices effectively through managing risk and being adaptive in their use of them in the many and dynamic microsystems of the classroom.
The book is unique in bringing together disparate evidence from a range of research areas and across core curriculum areas of English Language Arts, mathematics and science, for a theory of ‘Instructional Risk’; the basic proposition for which is that instructional approaches carry known and predictable risks. The book focuses on the expertise required to overcome risks, which are exaggerated for children from communities not well served by our schools. The book is also a critique of research that is 'programmatic' and limited to experimental evidence and summaries of that evidence which are uncritically developed into statements about ‘What Works’.
Made to be both an explication of the theory through repeated examples as well as a technical resource, this book will be vital reading for lecturers and postgraduate students of Education and Educational Psychology.
By:
Stuart McNaughton (University of Auckland New Zealand)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9780815355847
ISBN 10: 081535584X
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 11 May 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part I: Introduction Chapter One: The idea of risk Part II: Too much support Chapter Two: Teaching routines that cause procedural displays Chapter Three: Scaffolds that limit learning Chapter Four: Isolating components and compartmentalising learning Chapter Five: Feedback which undermines agency Part III: Too much support Chapter Six: Discovery and little learning Chapter Seven: Inquiry and ineffective learning Chapter Eight: Learner agency, digital learning and a new romanticism. Part IV: Misdirected support Chapter Nine: Assessment and the risk of restricting learning Chapter Ten : Focusing on the familiar and reducing transfer Conclusion: grand designs for teaching, learning and research
Stuart McNaughton is Professor of Education at the University of Auckland and New Zealand's Chief Education Scientific Advisor.
Reviews for Instructional Risk in Education: Why Instruction Can Fail
Instructional Risk in Education: Why Instruction Can Fail is a thoughtful and provocative book that deserves to be widely read and discussed. At the heart of it are analyses of the types of knowledge involved in successful teaching and considerations of how education may be lost. McNaughton draws on an extensive range of ideas in psychology and education. He illustrates his points with telling examples from work on primary and secondary schooling, but it has much to offer those interested in any phase of education. Richard Cowan, UCL Institute of Education, UK
