Reflective teaching : an introduction / Kenneth M. Zeichner and Daniel P. Liston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zeichner, Kenneth M.

Contributor:

Liston, Daniel Patrick.

Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.

Series:

Reflective teaching and the social conditions of schooling

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reflective teaching.

Education--Social aspects.

Education.

Critical pedagogy.

Physical Description:

xix, 119 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

This popular text provides a clear, succinct explanation of how reflection is integral to teachers' understandings of themselves, their practice, and their context, and elaborates how various conceptions of reflective teaching differ from one another. The emphasis on the importance of both self and context is embedded within distinct and varied educational traditions (conservative, progressive, radical, and spiritual). Readers are encouraged to examine their own assumptions and understandings of teaching, learning, and schooling and to reflect on self and context. The major goal of both this book, and of all of the volumes in the Reflective Teaching and the Social Conditions of Schooling Series, is to help teachers explore and define their own positions with regard to key topics and issues related to the aims of education in a democratic society. Its core message is that such reflection is essential to becoming more skilled, more capable, and in general better teachers. New in the Second Edition, Features three new chapters and new case material to explore reflection within and across traditions, Underscores use of critical educational texts and film to encourage reflection, Highlights emotional features of teaching and reflection, Addresses spiritual/contemplative domains in educational traditions, Companion Website: Questions, activities, web resources, etc. for students to provide in-depth interactions with the text; recommended assignments, application activities, PowerPoint, audio, video and web resources for faculty. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Understanding Reflective Teaching 1

An Initial Distinction: Reflective Teaching and Technical Teaching 1

On Reflective Teaching 4

The Bandwagon of Reflective Teaching 7

2 Historical Roots of Reflective Teaching 9

Introduction 9

Dewey's Contribution: What Is Reflective Teaching? 9

Openmindedness 11

Responsibility 11

Wholeheartedness 12

Reflection and the Pressures of Teaching 13

Schon: "Reflection-on-Action" and "Reflection-in-Action" 15

Framing and Reframing Problems 17

Criticisms of Schon's Conception 19

Reflection: A Singular or Dialogical Activity 19

Reflection as Contextual 20

Summary 24

3 Teachers' Practical Theories 25

Introduction 25

Handal and Lauvas' Framework for Understanding the Source of Teachers' Practical Theories 26

Personal Experience 27

Transmitted Knowledge 30

Values 32

Summary 35

4 The Stuff of Reflection 36

Introduction 36

Teaching as Emotional Labor 37

Thinking and Feeling 39

Metaphors and Images in Teacher 43

Enabling Reflection on Teaching 46

Summary 49

5 Reflective Teaching and Educational Traditions 50

Introduction 50

Teachers, Traditions, and Teaching 51

The Progressive Tradition 53

The Conservative Tradition 58

Core Knowledge-E. D. Hirsch 59

Higher Learning 61

The Social Justice Tradition 65

The Spiritual-Contemplative Tradition 70

Summary 76

6 Self, Student, and Context in Reflective Teaching 77

Introduction 77

The Teaching Self 78

Attending to Students 82

The Context of Schooling 87

The Social Conditions of Schooling 87

Engaging Community and Difference 90

One Last Vignette 96

Concluding Thoughts... 97.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kathryn Faul and Joseph A. Wallace Fund.

ISBN:

9780415826600

0415826608

9780415826617

0415826616

OCLC:

830668769

Publisher Number:

99955162931