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First Published in 2004. By detailed analysis of numerous classroom case studies, the author aims to show that true quality teaching is achieved only by sensitivitiy to the interplay between the processes by which children acquire knowledge.

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`Stones' book makes use of the whole body of empirically based psychological knowledge...It is written with a delightful and welcome lack of jargon and pomposity, it gives one great hope for the future.' - Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education `This book is fascinating, Sones raises important issues about the nature of teaching and learning, the structure of knowledge and the assessment of children's learning. (It) is a very important book: essential reading for psychologists, teachers, teacher educators and educational policymakers.' - British Journal of Psychology `One rarely comes across truly original ideas about teacher education in today's professional literatue. In this context Quality Teaching is like a breath of fresh air in a closed room rapidly becoming filled with imitative rhetoric ...conceptual change is a painful process that often begins with the class of dissenting voices. I can think of no tuer test of one's tolerance for cognotive dissonance than Quality Teaching: provocative, ironic and urbane.' - Educational Researcher Stone's book makes use of a whole body of empirically based psychological knowledge....It gives one great hope for the future. - Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

`Stones' book makes use of the whole body of empirically based psychological knowledge...It is written with a delightful and welcome lack of jargon and pomposity, it gives one great hope for the future.' - Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education `This book is fascinating, Sones raises important issues about the nature of teaching and learning, the structure of knowledge and the assessment of children's learning. (It) is a very important book: essential reading for psychologists, teachers, teacher educators and educational policymakers.' - British Journal of Psychology `One rarely comes across truly original ideas about teacher education in today's professional literatue. In this context Quality Teaching is like a breath of fresh air in a closed room rapidly becoming filled with imitative rhetoric ...conceptual change is a painful process that often begins with the class of dissenting voices. I can think of no tuer test of one's tolerance for cognotive dissonance than Quality Teaching: provocative, ironic and urbane.' - Educational Researcher Stone's book makes use of a whole body of empirically based psychological knowledge....It gives one great hope for the future. - Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

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Professor Edgar Stones

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