Facing the big questions in teaching : purpose, power and learning / edited by Alison St. George, Seth Brown, and John O'Neill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- -- Pt. 1. What is the purpose of education -- 1. Critically understanding how the curriculum shapes teaching and learning / Anne-Marie O'Neill and John O'Neill -- 2. Arts education: being awake in the world / Peter O'Connor and Viv Aitken -- 3. Regulations, accountability and compliance vs. participation, diversity and democracy in early childhood education / Judith Loveridge and Claire McLachlan -- 4. Teaching and learning in everyday activities and settings / John O'Neill and Roseanna Bourke -- 5. Questions in assessment for learning and teaching / Peter Rawlins and Linda Leach -- 6. Te Pae Huarewa: tribal perspectives on Māori education -- -- Pt. 2. How do power and ideology influence learning and teaching? -- 7. Through the eye of a needle pass the multiple threads of biculturalism / Seth Brown, Pi'ikea Clark, Marg Gilling and Hine Waitere -- 8. Social justice in education / Vicki M Carpenter and Nathalia Jaramillo -- 9. Assessment: power relations, P-political influences and pedagogical change / Dawn Penny and Bronwen Cowie -- 10. (Re)conceptualising gender in education: connecting research, theory and practice / Seth Brown and Margret Walshaw -- 11. Peer ecologies: the influence of peers on learning and teaching / Janis Carroll-Lind and Juliana Raskauskas -- 12. Inclusive education: addressing the challenge of equity in education / Alison Kearney and Jill Bevan-Brown -- -- Pt. 3. What are the relationships between teaching and learning? -- 13. Informing teaching through an understanding of learning / Alison St. George and Alison Sewell -- 14. Learning in the digital age : how are the ways we can learn changing with the use of technologies? / Maggie Hartnett, Bill Anderson and Mark Brown -- 15. Motivation and learning : Can I do it? Do I want to? / Alison St. George, Tracy Riley and Maggie Hartnett -- 16. Student voice(s) as a pedagogical tool / Rosanna Bourke and Judith Loveridge -- 17. Teachers' use of research to improve practice: why should we, how could we? / Claire Sinnema and Graeme Aitken.