Title: Approaches to teaching /
Authors: Fenstermacher, Gary D.; Soltis, Jonas F.
Publisher: Teachers College Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Teaching.; Effective teaching.; Education Philosophy
Contents: Approaches to teaching: Three teachers; Three approaches to teaching; Educating persons; A helpful formula -- The executive approach: Managing a classroom; Time on task; Features of this approach; Criticisms; Teacher effectiveness; The Coleman report; Research on teaching; Afterthoughts -- The therapist approach: Individual differences; Features of this approach; Roots in social criticism; Humanistic psychology; Existentialism; Afterthoughts -- The liberationist approach: A case study; Features of this approach; Manner in teaching; Moral and intellectual virtues; Traits of character; Forms of knowledge; Liberation as emancipation; The Paideia Proposal; Afterthoughts -- Reflections on the three approaches: Education and schooling; Social and political realities; How shall I teach?; Irreconcilable differences or integration?; Endthoughts -- Cases and disputes: Grading policies; An educated person; School and approach mismatch; Teacher-engineer or artist?; Individualized learning; How much control is too much?; Workbook dilemma; A new science kit; Individual and societal needs; Curing shyness; What standard shall we use?; Teaching "relevant" literature; Teacher and mother?; Freedom and indocrination; Too young to be critical?; Education for life; Freedom of speech?; Mass or class culture?; Learning chemistry by discussion; different learning styles; Compatibility of approaches; Go fly a kite.