The Tact of Teaching - The Meaning of Pedagogical Thoughtfulness

This thought-provoking book offers an original perspective on the meaning and practice of teaching as a reflective activity. Max van Manen defines pedagogical thoughtfulness as the way that educators grow, change, and deepen themselves as a result of reflecting on living with children. He shows how the processes of teaching require tact --an interpretive intelligence, a practical moral intuitiveness, a sensitivity and openness toward the child's subjectivity, and an improvisational resoluteness in dealing with children. All teachers -- current and future -- who are concerned about the "caring" aspects of their work will be inspired by this text.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Max van Manen is Professor of Education at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy, also published by SUNY Press, and The Tone of Teaching.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Max van Manen
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 20.08.1991
• EAN: 9780791406670
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0667-0
• Seiten: 240
• Serien: Suny Series, Teacher Empowerme; Suny Series, Teacher Empowerme; Suny Series, the Philosophy of
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Schulpädagogik, Didaktik, Methodik