Becoming a critically reflective teacher / Stephen Brookfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brookfield, Stephen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teaching.

Critical thinking.

Physical Description:

xvi, 286 p. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, [California] : Jossey-Bass, 2017.

Summary:

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Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

About the Author

Chapter 1: What Is Critically Reflective Teaching?

Critically Reflective Teaching

Types of Assumptions

Paradigmatic Assumptions

Prescriptive Assumptions

Causal Assumptions

How Do We Examine Assumptions?

Students' Eyes

Colleagues' Perceptions

Personal Experience

Theory and Research

So What Makes Reflection Critical?

Critical Reflection as the Illumination of Power

Dominant Ideology

Unearthing Power Dynamics

Critical Reflection as Uncovering Hegemony

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Uncovering Assumptions of Power

Commonsense Assumptions about Good Teaching

Assumptions of Power

The Circle

The Teacher as Fly on the Wall

Chapter 3: Uncovering Hegemonic Assumptions

I Must Motivate My Students by My Charismatic Singularity

It's All under Control

Washing Clean the Stain of Resistance

The Perfect‐Ten Syndrome

Deep Space Nine: The Answer Must Be out There Somewhere

We Meet Everyone's Needs

I Can Fix Racism (Sexism, Classism, Ableism)

Chapter 4: The Four Lenses of Critical Reflection

Theory

Chapter 5: Clarifying the Benefits of Critical Reflection

It Helps Us Take Informed Actions

It Helps Us Develop a Rationale for Practice

It Helps Us Survive the Emotional Roller Coaster of Teaching

It Helps Us Avoid Self‐Laceration

It Enlivens Our Classrooms

It Keeps Us Engaged

It Models the Democratic Impulse

It Increases Trust

Chapter 6: Seeing Ourselves through Students' Eyes

Students' Eyes and Student‐Centeredness

The Unwitting Diktat: An Illustration of Power Dynamics

The One‐Minute Paper

The Muddiest Point

The Learning Audit

Clickers.

Social Media

TodaysMeet

The Critical Incident Questionnaire

Detecting Problems before They Get out Of Hand

Justifying Why You Use Different Teaching Approaches

Helping Resisters Realize They Are in a Minority

Using CIQs with Small and Large Classes

Letter to Successors

Chapter 7: Learning from Colleagues' Perceptions

Creating Critically Reflective Conversations

Start‐up Sentence Completion

Beginning the Conversation with Critical Incidents

Chalk Talk

The Circular Response Method

Bohmian Dialogue

Critical Conversation Protocol

Chapter 8: Team Teaching as Critical Reflection

Providing Emotional Grounding

Modeling Critical Reflection for Students

Negotiating Vulnerability

Learning Risk and Embracing Uncertainty

Confirmatory Critical Reflection

Chapter 9: Using Personal Experience

Graduate Study

Professional Development Workshops

Conference Attendance

Recreational Learning

The Story Continues . . .

Final Scene . . .

Chapter 10: Learning from Theory

What Reading Theory Does for Us

It Drops Bombs of Productive Dissonance

It Opens New Worlds

It Helps Us Recognize Ourselves

It Stops Us Accepting Groupthink

Narrative Theorizing

Scholarly Personal Narrative

A Productive Theoretical Insight: Repressive Tolerance

Chapter 11: Incorporating Social Media and Back‐Channel Communication

Assumptions about Social Media

Social Media as a Lens on Practice

Power and the Use of Social Media

Back‐Channel Communication and Student Decision Making

Chapter 12: Applying Critical Reflection to Teaching Race and Racism

Why Is Critical Reflection on Race and Racism So Difficult?

The Problem of Perspective Taking

The Ideology of White Supremacy.

Defining Racist and Racism

The Slippery Nature of Racial Microaggressions

The Inability of Whites to See Themselves as Racial Beings

Using Narrative Disclosure to Set a Tone for Examining Race

Colleagues as Critical Lenses on Race

What Students' Eyes Tell Us about Examining Race in the Classroom

We Need to Prep Students

Modeling by Leaders Is Crucial

Conversations about Race Will Not Produce Solutions

Normalizing Racism

Chapter 13: Negotiating the Risks of Critical Reflection

Impostorship

Dealing with Impostorship

Cultural Suicide

Avoiding Cultural Suicide

Lost Innocence

Marginalization

Avoiding Political Marginalization

Chapter 14: Practicing Critically Reflective Leadership

What Is Critically Reflective Leadership?

Followers' Eyes

Embedding Critical Reflection in Meetings

The Circle of Voices

The Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ)

Clearness Committee

Appreciative Pause

Modeling Critically Reflective Leadership

Bibliography

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119050650 (eBook)

OCLC:

970636117