Larry D. Spence

Maybe Teaching is a Bad Idea

Why Faculty Should Focus on Learning

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book proposes a radical restructuring of teaching so that it conforms to how people learn. Spence maintains that teaching cannot and should not be aimed at transferring knowledge from teacher brains into student brains. .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9781642674644
• ISBN-10: 1642674648
• Artikelnr.: 63401738

Autorenporträt

Larry D. Spence was an associate professor of political science at Penn State, where he was recognized for distinguished teaching with two University-wide teaching awards during his career. After 25 years teaching, he became the founding director of the University's Schreyer Institute for Innovation in Learning. Upon his retirement, he directed a series of learning initiatives in Penn State's School of Information Sciences and Technology and the Smeal College of Business.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction-Maryellen Weimer 1. Early Learning Experiencing in School 2.
Early Teaching Experiences in College 3. It's Time to Put Lectures on the
Shelf 4. What is the Role of Questions in Learning? 5. Content. Does All
That Information Lead to Knowledge? 6. Teaching Realities. Conflicts,
Assumptions, and Approaches 7. What Is Learning? 8. Rethinking Failure and
Ignorance 9. Criticism. The Key to Learning 10. Teaching That Promotes
Learning from Mistakes and Failure 11. Practice Makes Perfect but Not
Unless It's Deliberate Epilogue-Maryellen Weimer About the Author Index