M. Robert Gardner

On Trying To Teach (eBook, ePUB)

The Mind in Correspondence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In an era in which the teaching enterprise is freighted with tactics, techniques, and methods, M. Robert Gardner guides us back to the spirit of teaching. He writes especially about the dilemmas and challenges of teaching, about how it feels to be trying

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135890315
• Artikelnr.: 40186242

Autorenporträt

The author of Self Inquiry (Analytic Press, 1989) and HIdden Questions, Clinical Musings (Analytic Press, 1995), M. Robert Gardner, M.D., is a founder and training analyst of the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: On Essay Teaching. Introduction: Beginnings. Part I: The School of
Soft Knocks. The Furor to Teach. The Unknown Student. Gulliver at Home and
Abroad. On Teacherly Versatility. The Warp and the Woof. On Creativity,
Discipline, and Other Desiderata. A Concise History of Teaching. Concise
Addendum to a Concise History of Teaching. Part II: A Gentle Symbiosis: The
Student and the Teacher. On New and Old Beginnings. Gumbel's Gambit. Hidden
Questions. On Catching Burrs. A Brief Case of Hidden-Question Chasing. More
on the Besetting Challenges of Hidden-Question Catching. Some Added
Questions on the Question of What Attention to Hidden Questions Is Good
For. On Passing Events. Other Clues to Hidden Questions. On Purple Trees,
Purple Cows, Telling Right from Wrong, and Bearing the Distresses of Being
Wrong. More Reflections on the Nature of Hidden Questions. Once More
Backward. On the Importance of Being a Bit Off. On Trying to Teach in Large
Groups as Well as Small, or Almost as Well. On Finding Three-Ring Circuses
and on Other Merits of Tending to Hidden Questions. Afterword: Studenthood.
Other Thoughts on Assessing Teaching.