Laura and Jim and what they taught me about the gap between educational theory and practice / Dona M. Kagan, with James R. Chesnut [and others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index.

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Tables -- Introduction -- 1. Motivation and Method -- Method and Overview -- The Utility of This Project -- Acknowledgments -- How This is a Different Kind of Educational Research -- The School Context -- 2. What I Saw in Laura's Classroom -- The Cognition Underlying Laura's Practice -- 3. Beth's Course on Methods of Teaching Seconding English -- Beth Evaluates My Description of Laura's Practice -- 4. Laura's Response to Beth -- 5. What I Saw in Jim's Classroom -- The Cognition Underlying Jim's Practice -- 6. Liza's Course on Methods of Teaching Secondary Social Studies.

Liza Evaluates My Description of Jim's Classroom Practice -- 7. Jim's Response to Liza -- 8. Where and Why the Professors and the Teachers Disagreed -- Points of Difference: Comparing the Two Perspectives -- Interviews with the Student Teachers -- Echoes in the Literature of Teaching and Teacher Education: The Functional Value of Each Perspective -- Inferences and Implications -- Where We Might Go from Here: The Moral of the Story -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y -- Z.

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