A number of learning techniques are discussed including learning journals, research reports and documentation of how students experience learning. Adjusting teaching practice to respond to these identified rhythms and the uses and abuses of lecturing form Chapter Six. Chapters Seven and Eight detail the relevance of discussions, including getting discussions started, ensuring fair discussion and the general management of discussions. Chapter Nine focuses on simulation and role-playing. Chapter Ten deals with Evaluation.
Chapter Eleven discusses the students who resist learning.
Chapter Twelve describes teacher credibility, authenticity and trust-building between students and teachers. Chapter Thirteen details the multiplicity of political issues which the college teacher must encounter and successfully overcome, and the final chapter, Chapter Fourteen elaborates on the notion of the skillful teacher. Brookfield says he is offering a survival manual for college teachers, and that's exactly what he does. In fact, the early parts of the book read almost like a course outline, and he has followed his own directions. Although addressed to post-secondary educators in general, the principles he identifies could apply to any educational setting.