Imagining Education: Taking CHAT Based Transformative Action

Sharada Gade is erstwhile classroom teacher, independent researcher and member of the International Advisory Board for Educational Action Research. Following doctoral work in Norway, she held postdoctoral fellowships in India, Sweden, the US and the UK.

• PrefaceList of Figures and Tables1 Introducing This Book: Arts-and-Science-in-the-Making1 Preamble2 Human Action3 Cultivating Humanity4 Human Transformation5 Artistic Imagination6 Humanistic Mathematics7 Arts-and-Science-in-the-Making: Coda2 Classroom Teaching: Schools Are for Teachers Too1 Preamble2 Where the Mind Is without Fear3 Human Beings Who Are Integrated4 The Rollercoaster of Teaching5 Personal Practical Knowledge6 Vygotsky in Educational Psychology7 Schools Are for Teachers Too: Coda3 Doctoral Research: Ascending to the Concrete1 Preamble2 Cooperative Learning | zpd3 Collaborative Classroom Practice4 Cultural Tools | Development | Methodology5 Artefacts | Mediated Action | Mediated Agency6 Activity | as Unit of Analysis7 Ascending to the Concrete: Coda4 Wider CHAT Research: From Activity to Directivity1 Preamble2 Making Human Beings Human3 Situated Learning4 Functional Approach to Literacy5 Funds of Knowledge6 Rousing Minds to Life7 From Activity to Directivity: Coda5 Practitioner Research: Art and Life Are Not One1 Preamble2 Narrative Research3 Action Research4 Teacher Research5 Life History Research6 Person Centric Research7 Art and Life Are Not One: Coda6 Pedagogical Perspectives: The Tone of Teaching1 Preamble2 Contexts for Local Change3 Lads and Ear’oles4 Socio-Institutional Pedagogy5 Pedagogical Categories6 Leading Activity across Ages7 The Tone of Teaching: Coda7 Critical Perspectives: Dialectical Inquiry1 Preamble2 Critical Consciousness3 Critical Ontology for Teachers4 Hidden Curriculum of Work5 Research as Praxis6 Research as Bricolage7 Dialectical Inquiry: Coda8 Curriculum Studies: Schooling Is a Bold and Risky Means1 Preamble2 Teacher as Artist Is Researcher3 Deliberating the Practical4 Arts in Education5 Cases – Portfolios – Tasks6 Taking Intelligent Action7 Schooling Is a Bold and Risky Means: Coda9 Taking Transformative Action: Gaining from Triangulation1 Preamble2 Relational Knowing | The Equal to Sign3 Relational Agency | Problem Posing4 Cogenerative Dialogue | Making Measurements5 Expansive Learning | Meaningful Activities6 Forests and Trees | A Multilectic7 Gaining from Triangulation: Coda10 Epilogue: Practitioner-as-Artist-and-Scientist1 Preamble2 Promising CHAT Avenues3 Short Summary of Key Findings4 Nature of Action, Theory and Dialectic at Play5 Practitioner-as-Artist-and-Scientist: CodaSubject IndexAuthor Index