Maybe Teaching Is a Bad Idea : Why Faculty Should Focus on Learning.

Maybe Teaching Is a Bad Idea : Why Faculty Should Focus on Learning.

"Deep and lasting learning results when we teach human brains in ways responsive to how they're structured and how they function, which is not how we imagine they work or wish they would work. This book proposes a radical restructuring of teaching so that it conforms to how people learn&qu...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Spence, Larry D.
Other Authors: Weimer, Maryellen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2022
Subjects:
Cognitive learning.
Effective teaching.
College teaching.
Knowledge, Theory of.
epistemology.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • MAYBE TEACHING IS ABAD IDEA: Why Faculty Should Focus on Learning
  • COPYRIGHT © 2022 BY STYLUS PUBLISHING, LLC.
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter One: EARLY LEARNING EXPERIENCES IN SCHOOL
  • Chapter Two: EARLY TEACHING EXPERIENCES IN COLLEGE
  • Chapter Three: IT'S TIME TO PUT LECTURES ON THE SHELF
  • Chapter Four: WHAT'S THE ROLE OF QUESTIONS IN LEARNING?
  • Chapter Five: CONTENT
  • Does All That Information Lead to Knowledge?
  • Chapter Six: TEACHING REALITIES
  • Conflicts, Assumptions, and Approaches
  • Chapter Seven: WHAT IS LEARNING?
  • Chapter Eight: RETHINKING FAILURE AND IGNORANCE
  • Chapter Nine: CRITICISM
  • The Key to Learning
  • Chapter Ten: TEACHING THAT PROMOTES LEARNING FROM MISTAKES AND FAILURE
  • Chapter Eleven: PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT, BUT NOT UNLESS IT'S DELIBERATE
  • EPILOGUE
  • INDEX

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