Teaching as a reflective practice : the German Didaktik tradition / edited by Ian Westbury, Stefan Hopmann, Kurt Riquarts.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Westbury, Ian.

Hopmann, Stefan

Riquarts, Kurt.

Series:

Studies in curriculum theory

Studies in curriculum theory series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Germany--Philosophy.

Education.

Germany.

Philosophy.

Teaching.

Curriculum planning.

Physical Description:

xi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1999.

Summary:

An intro. to Didaktic (the heart of thinking about teaching/teacher educ in Germany) for English-speaking readers, drawing on a range of writings assoc. w/ this tradition. Throws light on assumptions, characteristics, & weaknesses of curriculum thought.

Contents:

Starting a Dialogue: A Beginning Conversation Between Didaktik and the Curriculum Traditions / Stefan Hopmann, Kurt Riquarts 3

Part I Didaktik As a Reflective Practice 13

1. Teaching as a Reflective Practice: What Might Didaktik Teach Curriculum? / Ian Westbury 15

2. German Didaktik: Models of Re-presentation, of Intercourse, and of Experience / Rudolf Kunzli 41

Part II Bildung: Didaktik's Central Idea 55

3. Theory of Bildung / Wilhelm von Humboldt 57

4. On Wilhelm von Humboldt's Theory of Bildung / Christoph Luth 63

5. The Significance of Classical Theories of Bildung for a Contemporary Concept of Allgemeinbildung / Wolfgang Klafki 85

Part III Sources From the Didaktik Tradition 109

6. Didaktik as a Theory of Education / Erich Weniger 111

7. The Art of Lesson Preparation / Heinrich Roth 127

8. Didaktik Analysis as the Core of Preparation of Instruction / Wolfgang Klafki 139

9. Teaching to Understand: On the Concept of the Exemplary in Teaching / Martin Wagenschein 161

10. Content: Still in Question / Peter Menck 177

Part IV Didaktik as Praxis 195

11. Klafki's Model of Didaktik Analysis and Lesson Planning in Teacher Education / Stefan Hopmann 197

12. Levels of Classroom Preparation / Gotthilf Gerhard Hiller 207

13. Oral and Written Communication for Promoting Mathematical Understanding: Teaching Examples From Grade 3 / Christiane Senn-Fennell 223

14. Reflecting as a Didaktik Construction: Speaking About Mathematics in the Mathematics Classroom / Michael Neubrand 251

15. Aspects of Simplification in Mathematics Teaching / Arnold Kirsch 267

16. The Law of Free Fall as an "Exemplary Theme" for the Mathematicizability of Certain Natural Processes / Martin Wagenschein 285

17. Open Experimenting: A Framework for Structuring Science Teaching and Learning / Peter Reinhold 295

18. Klafki's Didaktik Analysis as a Conceptual Framework for Research on Teaching / Sigrun Gudmundsdottir, Anne Reinertsen, Nils P. Nordtomme 319.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805829202

OCLC:

41482174