Teaching embodied : cultural practice in Japanese preschools / Akiko Hayashi and Joseph Tobin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayashi, Akiko, 1979- author.

Tobin, Joseph Jay, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Preschool teachers--Japan.

Preschool teachers.

Education, Preschool--Psychological aspects.

Education, Preschool.

Teaching--Psychological aspects.

Teaching.

Child development--Japan.

Child development.

Japan.

Educational psychology--Japan.

Educational psychology.

Educational anthropology.

Physical Description:

viii, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Summary:

Teaching Embodied explores how teachers act, think, and talk. Akiko Hayashi and Joseph Tobin embedded themselves in the classrooms of three Japanese preschool teachers. Drawing on extended interviews, observations, and hours of video footage, they focus on how teachers embody their lessons: how they use their hands to gesture, comfort, or discipline; how they direct their posture, gaze, or physical location to indicate degrees of attention; and how they use the tone of their voice to communicate empathy, frustration, disapproval, or enthusiasm. Showcasing the tremendous importance of-and dearth of attention to-body language and the implicit and tacit aspects of teaching, they offer a powerful new inroad into educational study and practice and a deeper understanding of how teaching actually works, no matter in what culture or country it is being practiced. Book jacket.

Contents:

Mimamoru (teaching by watching and waiting)

The pedagogy of feelings

The pedagogy of peripheral participation

Learning embodied culture

Expertise

Early childhood education policy as cultural practice

Reassembling the cultural.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226263076

022626307X

9780226263106

022626310X

OCLC:

904958468