Teachable Moments

Snapshot: Logo Vignettes: Early Teachable Moments

In this snapshot, Wally Feurzeig, one of the originators of Logo, and an innovative designer of mathematics education learning environments, recalls some compelling vignettes from the early history of Logo (including activities with the first Logo-controlled wireless turtle), with children ranging in age from pre-schoolers to fifth-graders. Wally passed away this past year. Wally was a long-tim...

The Anywhere Museum : Genres of Teachable Moments

A great teacher perceives and utilizes teachable moments in the classroom, that is, moments in which classroom activities, attention, and conversation come together to create an opportunity for conceptual change. The Anywhere Museum implements the teachable moment in the environment as an instrument that provokes and yet has the proper content to support inquiry. We enumerate the socio-technica...

Teachable moments for promoting smoking cessation: the context of cancer care and survivorship.

BACKGROUND There has been a call for comprehensive cancer care that gives greater consideration to changing lifestyle risk factors such as smoking to improve prognosis and long-term health. Cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship offer challenges and opportunities ("teachable moments") to promote smoking cessation. METHODS This review provides a rationale for the importance of smoking c...

Remaking the Self: Trauma, Teachable Moments, and the Biopolitics of Cancer Survivorship

As numerous scholars have noted, cancer survivorship is often represented in popular discourse as providing an opportunity for a physical, emotional, and spiritual makeover. However, this idea that cancer enables the self to be remade on all levels is also increasingly evoked in the field of psychosocial oncology. Exploring cancer survivorship as a biopolitical phenomenon, I focus on two concep...

Street Stops and Police Legitimacy: Teachable Moments in Young Urban Menâ•Žs Legal Socialization