Teaching excellence in higher education / by Marshall Gregory ; edited by Melissa Valiska Gregory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gregory, Marshall W., 1940-2012, author.

Contributor:

Gregory, Melissa Valiska, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teaching--United States.

College teaching.

United States.

Effective teaching--United States.

Effective teaching.

Physical Description:

xv, 257 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

In this volume, the culmination of a lifetime's work as an educator, Marshall Gregory lays out a pedagogical theory and ethical vision for teaching. He argues that teachers across the arts and sciences can reach for teaching excellence by relying on more than good will, good intentions, sincerity, enthusiasm, and trial and error. They can think, individually and collectively, about the educable capacities of the students they teach and about the ultimate aim of their teaching: not to merely impart information or train their students in a discipline, but to develop their students' abilities for thought, reflection, questioning, and engagement to their fullest extent. Drawing on over forty-five years of teaching and thirty-five years of training teachers to think about pedagogy, Gregory speaks to any teacher wanting to more fully ground the what of teaching in the how and why. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Good Teaching and Educational Vision: Not the Same Thing as Disciplinary Expertise 1

2 Forgetting, Learning, and Living: How Education Makes a Difference Even Though We Forget Most of What We Learn 23

3 The Dynamics of Desire in Everyday Classrooms 49

4 Ethical Pedagogy 73

5 From Shakespeare on the Page to Shakespeare on the Stage: What I Learned about Teaching in Acting Class 95

6 Love? What's Love Got to Do with It? 117

7 Developing Your Own Philosophy of Education: Principles, Not Personalities 139

8 What Is Teaching, After All? 169

9 Teacherly Ethos Revisited 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137379450

1137379456

OCLC:

850909491