Reflective Teaching

by Kenneth M. Zeichner, Daniel P. Liston

This popular text provides a clear, succinct explanation of how reflection is integral to teachers understandings of themselves, their practice, and their context, and elaborates how various conceptions of reflective teaching differ from one another. The emphasis on the importance of both self and context is embedded within distinct and varied educational traditions (conservative, progressive, radical, and spiritual). Readers are encouraged to examine their own assumptions and understandings of teaching, learning, and schooling and to reflect on self and context. The major goal of both this book, and of all of the volumes in the "Reflective Teaching and the Social Conditions of Schooling" series, is to help teachers explore and define their own positions with regard to key topics and issues related to the aims of education in a democratic society. Its core message is that such reflection is essential to becoming more skilled, more capable, and in general better teachers.

Genres: Education

144 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1996

Reviews

[Ashley · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

Somewhat outdated material present in this research. At times it felt repetitive and I found myself going around the same roundabout again and again. I enjoyed learning about the different reflective approaches as well as the different underlying motivations for reflective teaching. Overall this was an insightful look into reflective teaching.

[James F · Rating 2 out of 5]

interesting topic, boring presentation