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Contextual Teaching and Learning: Preparing Teachers to Enhance Student Success in and Beyond School

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Ten papers in this volume outline a vision for teacher education based on the concept of contextual teaching and learning, which holds that learning is situated within and greatly influenced by physical, social, cultural, and subject matter context. The annotated bibliography describes 40 resources.

Contents are as follows:

Contextual Teaching and Learning: An Overview of the Project (Susan Jones Sears and Susan B. Hersh)

Introduction to the Commissioned Papers (Kenneth R. Howey)

The Role of Context in Teacher Learning and Teacher Education (Hilda Borko and Ralph T. Putnam)

Problem-Based Learning: Learning and Teaching in the Context of Problems (Jean W. Pierce and Beau Fly Jones)

Community Service Learning: Collaborating with the Community as a Context for Authentic Learning (Rahima C. Wade)

Preparing Preservice Teacher Education Students to Use Work-based Strategies to Improve Instruction (Richard L. Lynch and Dorothy Harnish)

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Contextual Teaching and Learning (Lauren Jones Young)

The Role of Self-Regulated Learning in Contextual Teaching: Principles and Practices for Teacher Preparation (Scott G. Paris and Peter Winograd)

Authentic Assessment of Teaching in Context (Linda Darling-Hammond and Jon Snyder)

Afterword (Kenneth R. Howey)

Contextual Teaching and Learning Annotated Bibliography