1st Edition
The Teaching Instinct Explorations Into What Makes Us Human
By Kip Téllez
Copyright 2016
134 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
134 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
134 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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How we select, prepare, and support teachers has become a surprisingly common topic among journalists, politicians, and policymakers. Contemporary recommendations on teaching and teachers, whatever their intentions, fail to assess this deeply human activity from its historical roots. In The Teaching Instinct: Explorations Into What Makes Us Human , Kip Téllez invites us to reappraise teaching... Read more
Contents
1. What Is Teaching? What Is Instinct?
2. Teaching in Other Species
3. When Do We Know How to Teach?
4. Is Teaching Universal in Human Cultures?
5. How Do We Find the Instinct, and Can It Be Measured?
6. "You Didn’t Know What You Didn’t Know": Steven’s Story
7. Concluding Thoughts
Appendix: Parenting as Teaching
References
Biography
Kip Téllez is Professor in the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
