Background
Thompson, George Brian was born on April 1, 1938 in Invercargill, New Zealand. Son of Peter George and Jessie (Buck) Thompson.
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"Ways of Thinking, Ways of Teaching" presents a model of teacher thinking and action - one that explains teacher decisions about what and how to teach. Combining qualitative and quantitative data drawn from observations and interviews with urban teachers of writing, George Hillocks argues that teacher knowledge is not simply transferred from some source to the teacher. Rather, it is constructed on the basis of assumptions about epistemology, students, and subject matter. The fact of this construction helps to explain why teacher education has had so little effect on changing the classroom behaviour of teachers from one generation to the next. The book examines what actually happens in composition classrooms, presenting large chunks of representative transcripts for analysis.
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Thompson, George Brian was born on April 1, 1938 in Invercargill, New Zealand. Son of Peter George and Jessie (Buck) Thompson.
Bachelor, University New Zealand, Christchurch, 1960. Master of Arts, University Canterbury, Christchurch, 1962. Dip.edu.psych., University Auckland, New Zealand, 1968.
Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 1980.
Psychologist Lintas Proprietary, Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand, 1962-1965, Psychological Services, Department Education, Napier, New Zealand, 1968-1974. Senior teaching fellow Faculty Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 1974-1978. Visiting fellow department psychology University College, London, 1984.
Senior lecturer School Education, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 1978-2001, senior research associate, since 2001. Honorary consultant New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Wellington, 1980—2000. Honorary research project advisor New Zealand Business Roundtable, Wellington, New Zealand, 1994—1996.
Research consultant research division Ministry of Education, Wellington, 1998—2003, member literacy experts group, 1998—2001.
("Ways of Thinking, Ways of Teaching" presents a model of ...)
Fellow British Psychological Society (associate), New Zealand Psychological Society (associate, Golden Jubilee Special award 1998). Member International Reading Association (president Wellington Council 1983-1984), Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (board member 2000-2002).
Married Margaret Jean Daley, May 4, 1974. Children: Derek Adrian, Rona Louise.