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The use of self : the essence of professional education / Raymond Fox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox, Raymond, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teachers--Training of.
- Teachers.
- Teacher-student relationships.
- Reflective teaching.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- The Use of Self presents an active, learner-centered process of professional education that emphasises relationships and reflection in the classroom. The book shows how teachers can establish classroom environments of sharing, openness, challenge, and change. According to the author, the goal of higher education is to mold students into scientifically sophisticated, humane, and client-centered practitioners with knowledge grounded in discipline and skills anchored in art and compassion. This book will help professors accomplish this goal.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Basic Principles
- 1. Introduction
- Why This Book?
- Overarching Themes
- The Teacher/Practitioner
- Reflective Teaching
- The Marriage of Content and Process, Discipline and Instruction
- Afterthought
- 2. Musings about Teaching and Learning
- A Background Account
- Beliefs about Students
- Beliefs about Teaching
- Beliefs about Learning
- 3. Personal Presence and the Safe Class
- The Core of Relationship
- Interaction
- Dimensions of the Teaching Relationship
- Levels of the Teaching Relationship
- Cognitive Learning
- Internalization
- Independence/Mastery
- Keep in Mind
- The Safe Class
- Empathy
- 4. The Matrix of Modeling, Mentoring, and Mirroring
- Modeling
- Being an Effective Model
- Beyond Imitation
- Self-Regulation
- Mentoring
- Group Mentoring
- Mirroring
- 5. Reflection and Self-awareness
- Backbone Philosophies
- Gaps and Overlaps
- A Personal Perspective on Reflective Teaching
- Three Stages of Reflection
- Balancing Seeming Contradictions
- Self-awareness
- Self-awareness in a Historical Perspective
- Part II: Effective Processes
- 6. Intersecting Styles: Teaching to Strengths
- Characteristics of Styles
- Styles as Windows on the World
- The First Two Panes: Cognition and Conceptualization
- The Third Pane: Affect
- The Fourth Pane: Behavior
- The Classroom Reality
- A Personal Perspective on Style
- Doing What Comes Unnaturally
- 7. Lesson Architecture
- The Lesson Plan
- Components of the Lesson Plan
- Sequence of the Lesson
- More on Lesson Sequence and Structure
- Relevant Methods for Content Delivery
- When Things Go Awry
- Guideline Questions for Pre-reflections
- Part III: Reflective Techniques
- 8. Writing for Insightful Reflection.
- The Merits of Writing
- Introducing the Practice of Writing
- Process Recording
- The Semi-structured Journal
- The Open-ended Journal
- Ways to Use Writing
- Writing for Yourself
- Clustering
- Co-documentation
- Advantages of Writing
- 9. Movies: Media as Message
- Movies' Attributes
- The Impact of Movies
- Guidelines for Selecting Movies
- Movies in Three Discrete Classes
- Students' Own Movies
- Guidelines for Employing Movies
- Suggestions
- 10. Storytelling
- Why Stories?
- The Power of Storytelling
- The Appeal of Stories in the Classroom
- Sources of Stories
- Master Storytellers
- Characteristics of Storytelling
- Your Own Personal and Professional Stories
- Stories as Empowering
- Students' Stories
- 11. Case/Critical Incident
- The Case Method
- Merits of Case Study
- Developing Cases
- Sources for Cases
- Selecting Cases
- Presenting Cases
- The Critical Incident Process
- 12. Photography, Art, and Quasi-art
- Photography
- Photographs in Practice Courses
- Photographic Genogram
- Art
- Hands-on
- Art and Science
- Learning from a Mobile
- Maps
- Pictograms
- The Johari Window
- Final Note
- 13. Role Playing
- Why Use Role Play?
- Categories of Role Play
- Preparation
- Debriefing
- Utilization Variation
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 28, 2020).
- Previously issued in print: 2011.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-755968-9
- 0-19-061667-9
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