Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Aims and Content, Unit 1: What is Explaining? - Practical Activity (1), Main Features - Discussion Activity (2), The Pupil's Perspective summary - Practical Activity (3), Unit 2: Strategies of Explanation - Written Activity (4), Different Approaches - The Broad Strategies - Written Activity followed by Discussion (5)- Practical Activity (6), Unit 3: Analysing Explanations - Quantitative analysis - Qualitative analysis - Practical Activity (7) - Levels of thought - Pupils explaining - Practical Activity followed by Discussion (8) - Using Schedules - Practical Activity followed by Discussion (9), Unit 4: Knowing the Subject Matter - Different kinds of subject matter? Written Activity followed by Practical Activity (10) - Explaining concepts - Written Explanations - Written Activity followed by Practical Activity (12) - Coping Strategies - Written Activity (13), Unit 5: Effective Explaining - Main features of effective explaining - Pupils' perspective - Discover, or be told? Practical Activity followed by Written Activity (14) - Effective creativity? - Practical Activity (15), Unit 6: Feedback - Evaluating explanations - Answers to oral questions - Written tests of knowledge and understanding - Children's responses to practical task - Practical Activity (16) - aAnalysing your own or other people's explanations - General Feedback - research findings, expert views, pupil views - Practical Activity (17), References.
