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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Max van Manen
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.1991
• EAN: 9780791406670
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0667-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Suny Series, Teacher Empowerme; Suny Series, Teacher Empowerme; Suny Series, the Philosophy of
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology