Teaching as a Professional Discipline: A Multi-dimensional Model

✍ Scribed by Dr Geoffrey Squires, Geoffrey Squires

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This work argues that the lack of agreed theory of teaching is one of the most important and yet intractable problems facing education. Questions of training and assessment currently take place according to the criteria of many and diverse theories, most of which are dualistic and incompatible with each other. The author proposes a new intergrated model of teaching, derived from aspects of the professional discipline of teaching. The three characteristics of the professional teacher are laid out - being instrumental, being contingent, and being procedural. The questions asked are: what do teachers do?; what affects what they do?; and how do they do it? The resulting multi-dimensional model seeks to challenge and stimulate education researchers and teacher trainers, as well as those with an interest in the constitution of professional discipline.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Tables......Page 7
Preface......Page 8
1 The Paradigm Problem......Page 10
2 The Nature of Professional Disciplines......Page 32
3 Analysing the Course......Page 46
4 Analysing the Class......Page 84
5 Theory, Expertise and Practice......Page 118
6 Research, Training and Evaluation......Page 142
References......Page 152
Index......Page 166