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Understanding life in school : from the academic classroom to outdoor education / John Quay, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Understanding life in school : from the academic classroom to outdoor education / John Quay, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia.
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TF1278240 371.1024 QUA
Professor Stephen Dinham Collection   . Available .  
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Record Number 19264
ISBN 9781137391223
1137391227
Item Number 60002033039
Location 371.1024 QUA
Author Quay, John, 1964- (author.).
Title Understanding life in school : from the academic classroom to outdoor education / John Quay, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2015.
Collation xiv, 173 pages ; 23 cm.
General Note Formerly CIP.
PSD - Professor Stephen Dinham Collection
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-168) and index.
Contents Note Machine generated contents note: 1.Understanding Life so as to Understand Life in School -- The child versus the curriculum: Discord in the fundamentals of education -- Life and evolution: Education as growth -- Occupations as ways of being: Order in flux -- Education through occupations: Ontological education -- 2.Investigating Life in School -- Setting up a study of life in school -- Auto-photography and photo-elicitation as study methods -- Taking photographs at school camp and in school -- Discussing photographs in interviews: Remembering moments -- From methods to accounts and theoretical analysis: Life in school as occupational -- 3.Life in School: Occupations and Outdoor Education -- Being-a-school-camper -- Camp time and school time -- Being-a-teacher-on-school-camp -- Dressing for new occupations: Board shorts and school uniforms -- Cooking, eating, washing, organizing: Occupations to do with food -- Responsibility and freedom: Their impact on occupations --
Contents note continued: Being-a-sailor: Negotiating various interpretations of an occupation -- A sense of place as occupational: Serenity and beauty versus speed and deadlines -- Being-a-kayaker: Debating occupational meaning -- Navigating, sleeping, toileting: The basics of life at school camp -- Around the campfire at night-time: Another important place -- A meeting between the two expo groups: Negotiating shared meanings -- Transitions between occupations -- 4.Life in School: Occupations and Academic Classrooms -- Steps forward and backward: Knowing others in different occupations -- Being-a-maths-student: Learning for testing -- Being-a-maths-group-member -- Being-a-science-student: Doing pracs and tests -- English and SOSE as occupations: Groups, discussions and decisions -- LOTE and art: Mandating occupations which may have no end-in-view -- Being-a-PE-class-member: A break from being-an-academic-student --
Contents note continued: Co-curricular sports and drama as occupations: Teams and cast/crew -- Difficulties in crossing between occupations -- 5.Life in School Is Occupational -- Problems with being-an-academic-student -- Occupations and pathways -- Three ontological aims -- Unit planning in 3D -- The life of the school in 3D.
Subject Classroom environment
Educational psychology
School camps
School environment
Teacher-student relationships
Students
Schools -- Philosophy
School environment -- Australia
Classroom environment -- Australia
School camps -- Australia
Educational psychology
Teacher-student relationships
Geographic Name Australia
SUBJECT Australian
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