Flow and Effective Teaching : A Study

ISBN-13: 9783639137422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 232 str.

John Gunderson

Opis

This book outlines a study that examined effectiveteaching through the lens of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's concept of"flow". More specifically it attempted to determine whether theeffectiveness of a teacher was correlated to being recognized in a stateof flow. The study tested the hypothesis that as a result ofthe heightened awareness that flow creates teachers in flow are moreaware and responsive to their students' needs and emotions tohelp facilitate learning. Consequently, the students of teachers inflow are more engaged in the classroom activities and learn becausethey want to learn not to prepare for a test or some extrinsic reward.With Csikszentmihalyi's flow model as a framework forcomparison the presence of flow in the classroom was examinedthrough videotape and interviews of twenty teachers' dividedinto two groups of ten. One group, designated effective was composed of teachers' awarded for their teaching effectiveness.The other group consisted of randomly selected teachers from the sameschools. Each teacher was videotaped in their classroom andlater interviewed to determine the presence of flow in the teachingexperience.

O autorze

Gunderson's work focuses on the belief education can transform
lives through
passionate teaching grounded in theory & philosophy. Coauthor of
This Book Is Not
Required, 3rd Ed., & Watching TV Is Not Required with Barnard
McGrane. He teaches at
Dana Hills High School & Chapman University in California. Ph.D.
from Claremont
Graduate University