Productive Learning: Science, Art, and Einstein's Relativity in Educational Reform / Edition 1

Productive Learning: Science, Art, and Einstein's Relativity in Educational Reform / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
1412940605
ISBN-13:
9781412940603
Pub. Date:
09/01/2006
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
ISBN-10:
1412940605
ISBN-13:
9781412940603
Pub. Date:
09/01/2006
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Productive Learning: Science, Art, and Einstein's Relativity in Educational Reform / Edition 1

Productive Learning: Science, Art, and Einstein's Relativity in Educational Reform / Edition 1

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Overview

This unique resource promotes the creation of productive learning contexts, which allow students to bring all that they are to the learning process, as essential to successful educational reform.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781412940603
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 09/01/2006
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Seymour B. Sarason is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Yale University. During his distinguished 48-year career, he has been one of the most astute observers and incisive critics of efforts to reform our schools. Among his more than 30 published books are The Predictable Failure of Educational Reform (1990), Schooling in America: Scapegoat or Salvation (1983), and The Culture of School and the Problem of Change (2nd ed., 1982).

Table of Contents

About the Authors
Acknowledgments
1. Structure of the Book
2. And What Do You Mean by Learning?
3. Mr. Holland’s Opus
4. Transition From Music to E = mc Squared
5. A Letter to the Reader
6. Light Carries Energy
7. How Fast Is Light?
8. What Is Light? What Is Ether?
9. How Can We Describe the Energy of Light?
10. The Principle of Conservation of Energy
11. Max and Ming: Light in the Matchbox
12. Max and Ming Build Their Frames of Reference
13. What Time Is It on a Distant Clock?
14. Max and Ming Review the Concept of Time
15. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
16. How E = mc Squared Comes About
17. Toward a Conception of Learning
Appendices
Appendix A: Energy of Motion of a Body
Appendix B: Frequencies and Energies of Photons If Time Is Absolute
Appendix C: Max’s Time Coordinates of Four Events
Appendix D: Is the Speed of Light Special?
Appendix E: Einstein’s Relationship Between Frames of Reference
Appendix F: Time and the Pythagorean Theorem
Appendix G: How Gamma Depends on v
Appendix H: Energy of Photons According to Ming
Appendix I: How Absorption of Light Changes Mass
Appendix J: Lenard and Einstein
Notes
Index
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