When Teaching Becomes Learning
A Theory and Practice of Teaching
2nd Edition
Published on 15. March 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
332 pages
978-0-8264-8909-8 (ISBN)
Description
Intended to help anyone who teaches, this book has something of a cult following. Drawing on extensive teaching experience, the author presents a personal account of good practice, written in an engaging and accessible style and based on extensive scholarly sources. Part I 'Learning' and Part II 'Teaching' complement one another, and the book as a whole offers an insight into how to teach in any set of circumstances. It does so without being prescriptive, instead helping teachers to think through their own problems and situations. As a result, "When Teaching Becomes Learning" is a book to which teachers will return on countless occasions. This edition has been updated throughout and now has 2 new chapters - Reflections of Educational Technology, and Why Teach? Chapters are now also divided up so they are each shorter and more user-friendly than before.
Reviews / Votes
"'This is a remarkable and delightful book, presented in a style reminiscent of a cross between Woody Allen and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Eric Sotto has not so much written as crafted it from a blend of his own experience and a wide knowledge of relevant psychological theory.' R A Becher, Professor of Education, University of Sussex, 1994 '...You have been able to clarify for me, in readable and understandable language, many of the intuitive feelings I have had about teaching all these years but have been unable to articulate.... Your book has also helped me to make sense out of all the conflicting cognitive theories used by psychologists, sociologists and philosophers.... The personalised and anecdotal illustrations of the different points you wished to make were so useful to help understanding' Letter to author from reader in Austria, 1994 'I am finding your book an inspiration... it has set me on a journey of reflection and reinterpretation of my own experiences of teaching and learning.' Letter from lecturer in Social Sciences, The Open University, 1995"More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Teachers
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
626 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-8909-8 (9780826489098)
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Additional editions
E-Book
03/2007
2nd Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€48.49
Available for download
Previous edition
Book
03/1994
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
€42.31
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Person
Eric Sotto has many years of teaching experience in schools and colleges both in the UK and overseas. He is a member of the British Psychological Society and a Chartered Psychologist.
Content
Part I: Learning; 1 Introduction; 2 Preliminaries; 3 Motivation and Learning; 4 The Learning Process; 5 Learning Applications; 6 Perception; 7 Memory - Facts and Answers; 8 Real Learning; 9 A Model of the Mind; 10 Tacit Learning and Conscious Learning; 11 Learning and Experiencing; Part II: Teaching; 12 The Transmission Method and an Alternative Approach; 13 The Teaching Process; 14 Teaching a Factual Subject; 15 Preparing a Lesson; 16 Classroom Interaction; 17 Difficult Lessons; 18 Teachers and Learners Asking Questions; 19 Overview; Afterword; Further Reading; Notes; Index.