
The Teaching Instinct
Explorations Into What Makes Us Human
Kip Tellez(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2016
Book
Hardback
124 pages
978-1-138-64546-2 (ISBN)
Description
How we select, prepare, and support teachers has become a surprisingly common topic among journalists, politicians, and policymakers. Contemporary recommendations on teaching and teachers, whatever their intentions, fail to assess this deeply human activity from its historical roots. In The Teaching Instinct: Explorations Into What Makes Us Human, Kip Tellez invites us to reappraise teaching through a wide lens and argues that our capacity to teach is one part culture, two parts genetic. By rescuing the field of instinct psychology from the margins, this challenging book explores topics as diverse as teaching in other species, teaching across human cultures, and the development of teaching in young children, finally drawing readers into a discussion about how our teaching instinct influences modern teacher learning, selection, and preparation. Drawing on disciplines as diverse as comparative biology, evolutionary psychology, and teacher education policy, Tellez warns us that ignoring or contradicting our teaching instinct results in unhappy teachers and dysfunctional school systems.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
3 s/w Abbildungen, 1 s/w Photographie bzw. Rasterbild, 2 s/w Zeichnungen, 2 s/w Tabellen
2 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
356 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-64546-2 (9781138645462)
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Person
Kip Tellez is Professor in the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Content
Contents
1. What Is Teaching? What Is Instinct?
2. Teaching in Other Species
3. When Do We Know How to Teach?
4. Is Teaching Universal in Human Cultures?
5. How Do We Find the Instinct, and Can It Be Measured?
6. "You Didn't Know What You Didn't Know": Steven's Story
7. Concluding Thoughts
Appendix: Parenting as Teaching
References
1. What Is Teaching? What Is Instinct?
2. Teaching in Other Species
3. When Do We Know How to Teach?
4. Is Teaching Universal in Human Cultures?
5. How Do We Find the Instinct, and Can It Be Measured?
6. "You Didn't Know What You Didn't Know": Steven's Story
7. Concluding Thoughts
Appendix: Parenting as Teaching
References