When Teaching Becomes Learning: a theory and practice of teaching
- 2nd ed.
- London Continnum 2007
- 320p. 24.4 cm.
Includes index
Contents Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgements Introduction Preliminaries Part I: Learning
1 Motivation 2 Two Accounts of Learning
3 The Learning Process 4 Talking and Feeling
5 Perception 6 Where are the Answers?
7 Why Only Living Things Can Learn
8 Two Memories
9 Explaining and Experiencing
10 A Theory of Learning
Part II: Teaching
11 The Transmission Method and an Alternative Approach
12 Research into Teaching
13 Clarity, Enthusiasm and Variety
14 Indirectness, Opportunities and Fit
15 Theory and Practice
16 Reflections on Educational Technology
17 Planning
18 Communicating and Participating
19 Interacting
20 Discussing
21 Difficult Lessons
22 Learning a New Approach
23 Variations on a Theme
24 Overview
25 Why Teach?
Further Reading
Notes and References
Index
Intended to help anyone who teaches, this book has something of a cult following. Drawing on extensive teaching experience, the author presents a personal account of good practice, written in an engaging and accessible style and based on extensive scholarly sources.
Part I 'Learning' and Part II 'Teaching' complement one another, and the book as a whole offers an insight into how to teach in any set of circumstances. It does so without being prescriptive, instead helping teachers to think through their own problems and situations. As a result When Teaching Becomes Learning is a book to which teachers will return on countless occasions.
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