Coming To Know Reflective Practice

ISBN-13: 9783639131765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str.

Gail Fensom

Opis

Open the door to most college classrooms, and youllfind experts in their fields--physics, mathematics,psychology--readying students for the 21st century.What you will rarely see, however, are professors whohave ever been formally educated in how to teach. Fordecades, teacher education programs have preparedpre-college practitioners, yet many institutions ofhigher learning today offer little to no preparationfor the teaching roles of faculty. This book examinesthe development of future faculty in a uniqueteaching seminar program designed to fill the gap.Using ethnographic methods, Coming To Know ReflectivePractice describes, through a case-study approach,the teaching lives of four doctoral students as theyengage in their first year of supervised universityteaching. Each students emerging understandingsabout teaching and learning, and their subsequenteffect on classroom practice, are revealed. Educatorsand administrators interested in future facultyinitiatives and the role reflection plays in teachingdevelopment will find this book a rich resource.

O autorze

Gail A. Fensom, Ph.D., is on the faculty of the University of New
Hampshire at Manchester, where she directs the first year writing
program. Her research focuses on teaching and learning, and on
the development of college faculty.