Critical Incidents in Teaching: Developing Professional Judgement - Hardcover

Tripp, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415095425 ISBN 13: 9780415095426

Publisher: Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

Good teachers use good techniques and routines, but techniques and routines alone do not produce good teaching. This text suggests that the real art of teaching lies in the way that teachers exercise their professional judgement in circumstances where there is no "right answer". This combination of flexibility, informed guesswork and constant self-monitoring is not easy to acquire, but David Tripp aims to show how teachers can draw on their own experience to develop it. Although the book raises important theoretical and methodological issues about teaching and research, it is primarily intended as a practical guide, illustrated with classroom examples and extensively tested with teachers.

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About the Author

David Tripp retired from his full-time position in the School of Education, Murdoch University, Western Australia in 2007, and is now consulting in action inquiry processes in professional and organizational change and development. With a background in Secondary teaching and a Cambridge doctorate, David has published widely in the field of teacher education, professional development, and qualitative research, has been an expert witness at two Australian government inquiries, lectured and held visiting positions in a number of countries from the UK to Mongolia, Canada to Singapore, and is an Associate Editor of the Educational Action Research Journal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415095425
• ISBN 13: 9780415095426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256