Learning, Teaching and Education Research in the 21st Century

Joanna Swann is a Popperian philosopher of learning and method, known internationally for her innovative theoretical and practical explorations of the implications of evolutionary epistemology for teaching and education research. Formerly a Principal Lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK, she is now a freelance author.

• Acknowledgements; 1. The Purpose of this Book; Part I: Learning; 2. The Challenge of an Evolutionary Analysis of Learning; 3. What Happens When We Learn; 4. Addressing Some Problematic Ideas About Learning; Part II: Encouraging Learning; 5. What Promotes and What Inhibits Learning; 6. Against the Intensive Use of Prescribed Curricula with Children and Adolescents; 7. Developing Student-Initiated Curricula; Part III: Developing Teaching; 8. Research and the Development of Teaching; 9. Developing a Popperian Science of School Teaching; 10. Improving Our Practices as Teachers; 11. Teaching for a Better World; Index.

'Learning, Teaching and Education Research in the 21st Century provides an outstanding vision for curriculum leadership and a much needed theoretical road map about how people learn. This book offers the quintessence of the best of Swann's thinking and her 37 years experience. It will no doubt be regarded as one of the most thoughtful curriculum texts in education. I am thrilled to see Dr. Swann's ideas now available in this thoughtful and organized text.' Caroline R. Pryor, Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA