Envisioning Knowledge
by Langer, Judith A.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-12-05
Publisher(s): Teachers College Pr
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Summary
This book by Judith Langer-internationally known scholar in literacy learning-examines how people gain knowledge and become academically literate in the core subjects of English, mathematics, science, and social studies/history. Based on extensive research, it offers a new framework for conceptualizing knowledge development (rather than information collection), and explores how one becomes literate in ways that mark "knowing" in a field. Langer identifies key principles for practice and demonstrates how the framework and the principles together can undergird highly successful instruction across the curriculum. With many examples from middle and high schools, this resource will help educators to plan and implement engaging, exciting, and academically successful programs.
Author Biography
Judith A. Langer is an internationally known scholar in literacy learning and Distinguished Professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Getting to Excellent: How to Create Better Schools.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Envisioning Knowledge: An Introduction | p. 1 |
| Academic Literacy | p. 2 |
| The Growth of Academic Literacy | p. 3 |
| Why Academic Literacy Matters | p. 11 |
| Literate Thinking and Gaining Knowledge | p. 12 |
| Summing Up | p. 14 |
| The Origins of Envisionment Building | p. 16 |
| Envisionment Building | p. 16 |
| Stances During Envisionment Building | p. 21 |
| The Stances as an Instructional Tool | p. 23 |
| Summing Up | p. 27 |
| How We Build Literate Knowledge | p. 28 |
| Orientations Toward Meaning | p. 28 |
| How the Orientations Affect Instruction | p. 30 |
| How the Orientations Relate to One Another | p. 32 |
| Fostering Both Orientations in Disciplinary Classes | p. 36 |
| Summing Up | p. 38 |
| Envisionment-Building Classrooms | p. 39 |
| What Envisionment-Building Classrooms Look Like | p. 41 |
| Features of Minds-On Teaching | p. 43 |
| The Individual Within the Group | p. 51 |
| Summing Up | p. 51 |
| Envisionment Building in Social Studies/History | p. 53 |
| Instructional Foci in Social Studies/History | p. 55 |
| A Minds-On Social Studies/History Class | p. 57 |
| Using the Stances in 8th-Grade Social Studies/History Special Education | p. 67 |
| Online Discussion in a High School World History Class | p. 73 |
| Summing Up | p. 75 |
| Envisionment Building in Science | p. 77 |
| What and How Scientists Know | p. 78 |
| An 8th-Grade Science Class: Sustained Discussion and Writing About Experiments | p. 80 |
| Thinking Critically in a High School Physics Class | p. 88 |
| Summing Up | p. 90 |
| Envisionment Building in Mathematics | p. 92 |
| Learning Mathematics by Engaging in Applied Activities | p. 92 |
| Sustained Discussion and Problem Solving for 12th-Grade Struggling Mathematicians | p. 94 |
| An 8th-Grade Class Developing Math Concepts Through Problem-Based Activities | p. 103 |
| Summing Up | p. 112 |
| Envisionment Building in English | p. 114 |
| Thinking with and Through Language | p. 114 |
| Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of English Learning | p. 115 |
| How a 9th-Grade English Class Explores Vocabulary and Content | p. 117 |
| Making Literary Comparisons in 12th-Grade English | p. 121 |
| Online Research in a Special Education Class | p. 126 |
| Summing Up | p. 130 |
| Envisionment Building Across Disciplines: Teachers Collaborating in a Professional Community | p. 131 |
| Coming Together | p. 134 |
| Year 1: Developing Problem-Based, Minds-On Activities | p. 135 |
| Year 2: Enhancing Critical Thinking Through Writing | p. 137 |
| Year 3: Learning and Thinking More Deeply in the Disciplines | p. 148 |
| Continuing Self-Study | p. 151 |
| Summing Up | p. 153 |
| Closing the Circle: The Role of Literacy in Disciplinary Knowledge | p. 155 |
| Constructive Envisionment Building | p. 155 |
| Building Knowledge and Gaining Higher Literacy | p. 156 |
| Technology as a Cognitive Playground for Disciplinary Literacy | p. 158 |
| Summing Up | p. 158 |
| References | p. 161 |
| Index | p. 167 |
| About the Author | p. 175 |
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