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Teaching for Achievement or Teaching for Understanding?

Posted in Classroom Practice, Educational Policy, Educational Reform, Epistemology, History, Philosophy, Political Theory, Politics, Research, Social Studies, cognition, education, learning, school reform, teaching on April 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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I sat through an active presentation by Steven Turner in which he asked whether teaching for achievement or teaching for understanding is appropriate in public schools. In the current climate many of the participants at this session agreed that teaching for achievement as an isolated concept equates to teaching skills appropriate for testing [...]

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