The wisdom of practice: essays on teaching, learning, and learning to teach

Abstract

Sources. About the Author. Acknowledgments. Foreword (Pat Hutchings, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching). Introduction (Suzanne M. Wilson, Michigan State University). 1. Reconstruction of Educational Research. 2. Psychology and Mathematics Education. 3. The Psychology of School Subjects: A Premature Obituary? 4. Autonomy and Obligation: The Remote Control of Teaching. 5. The Practical and the Eclectic: A Deliberation on Teaching and Educational Research. 6. Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching. 7. Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of the New Reform. 8. The Wisdom of Practice: Managing Complexity in Medicine and Teaching. 9. Disciplines of Inquiry in Education: A New Overview. 10. Teaching Alone, Learning Together: Needed Agendas for the New Reforms. 11. The Paradox of Teacher Assessment. 12. A Union of Insufficiencies: Strategies for Teacher Assessment in a Period of Educational Reform. 13. Research on Teaching: A Historical and Personal Perspective. 14. Teacher Portfolios: A Theoretical Activity. 15. Aristotle Had It Right: On Knowledge and Pedagogy. 16. Joseph Jackson Schwab (1909 1988). 17. Calm Seas, Auspicious Gales. 18. Teaching as Community Property: Putting an End to Pedagogical Solitude. 19. Just in Case: Reflections on Learning from Experience. 20. Communities of Learners and Communities of Teachers. 21. Professional Development: Learning from Experience. 22. Theory, Practice, and the Education of Professionals. 23. Professing the Liberal Arts. Index.