1st Edition
What Expert Teachers Do Enhancing Professional Knowledge for Classroom Practice
Part One: Understanding teaching and learning: Embracing a knowledge of practice 1. Thinking about teaching 2. Thinking of learning 3. Pedagogy Part Two: Knowledge of practice in action 4. Prior views 5. Processing 6. Linking 7. Translation 8. Synthesizing 9. Metacognition Part Three: Professional Learning 10. The growth of professional knowledge through reflection: Valuing teachers and teaching 11. Teacher research: Learning about, shaping and extending one’s own knowledge of practice 12. Conclusion: A vision for professional knowledge and learning.
Biography
John Loughran is Professor at the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.
'There are a large number of books available on learning to teach and developing pedagogical skills. Most of these books either adopt a "technicist" approach to achieving competencies at various stages of teaching or go for values-based and reflective approaches without indicating how this informs the development of specific pedagogical skills and techniques. This book is unusual in combining the two approaches to good effect.' - Professor Jean Murray, University of East London
'This book gets to the heart of what makes for good teaching. The ideas are robust, principled and practical.' - Associate Professor Jane Mitchell, Charles Sturt University
'At one and the same time practical and intellectually stimulating.' - Professor Susan Groundwater-Smith, University of Sydney
