Teaching Excellence in Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9781137379450 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 257 str.

Marshall W. Gregory; Melissa Valiska Gregory

Opis

Marshall Gregory argues that teachers at the university and high school levels can achieve teaching excellence by grounding their teaching in pedagogical theory that takes into account students' abilities and the ultimate goals of teaching: to develop students' capacities for thought, reflection, questioning, and engagement to their fullest extent.

Recenzje

"Teaching Excellence in Higher Education . . . expands and renews our immediate experience of this crucial dimension of the profession, whatever that immediate experience has been." - Walter L. Reed, William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor, Emory University, USA

Spis treści

Preface 1. Good Teaching and Educational Vision: Not the Same Thing as Disciplinary Expertise 2. Forgetting, Learning, and Living: How Education Makes a Difference Even Though We Forget Most of What We Learn 3. The Dynamics of Desire in Everyday Classrooms 4. Ethical Pedagogy 5. From Shakespeare on the Page to Shakespeare on the Stage: What I Learned about Teaching in Acting Class 6. Love? What's Love Got To Do With It? 7. Developing Your Own Philosophy of Education: Principles, not Personalities 8. What is Teaching, after All? 9. Teacherly Ethos Revisited

O autorze

Marshall Gregory was the Harry Ice Professor of English, Liberal Education, and Pedagogy at Butler University, USA.