Teaching in Mind: How Teacher Thinking Shapes Education
What does it really mean to learn, to teach, or to understand?  These are some of the fundamental questions that longtime  teacher and trainer Yero considers in this eclectic blend of  psychology, philosophy, and educational criticism. Drawing on  literary, educational, and psychological research, popular  culture, and a range of humanistic criticism of the schools from  George Leonard to John Taylor Gatto, Yero examines how our  fundamental beliefs about teaching and learning affect our  professional work as educators. Teachers are invited, for  example, to examine their "personal metaphor" for the  educational process and to consider how an individual change  informed by this self-scrutiny might have a positive impact on  teachers' performance. Although this book might be seen as  complementing Patricia Wolfe's Brain Matters: Translating  Research into Classroom Practice in demonstrating the  relationship between pedagogy and cognitive psychology, it is  actually more akin to the professional development workshops  that Yero has delivered to teachers in recent years. As such, it  is an engaging, if sometimes simplistic, combination of  research, folk wisdom, and professional pride that may find a  home in a variety of public, professional, and academic  libraries. Scott Walter, Washington State Univ. Lib., PullmanCopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.