The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom (The Jossey-Bass higher education series) - Hardcover

Brookfield, Stephen D.

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9781555422677: The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom (The Jossey-Bass higher education series)

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ISBN 10: 1555422675 ISBN 13: 9781555422677

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1990

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Now in Paperback! "Insights and practical suggestions to college educators for whom teaching students is a major part of their professional responsibility.... [Brookfield] will become to the field of education what Peter Drucker has become to management: a scholar who educates and influences practitioners in the field through incisive and challenging writing."
–– Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education

"Readable, innovative, and perceptive. . . . The final chapters on the political realities and phenomenological truths of college teaching alone are worth the price of the book, especially for prospective, new, or veteran college, adult, or continuing education teachers."
––Choice

Brookfield shows new and veteran teachers how to thrive on the unpredictability and diversity of classroom life. He draws from his own teaching experience and extensive research to identify critical areas in the teacher–learner relationship––such as building trust with students and overcoming resistance to learning.

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About the Author:

STEPHEN D. BROOKFIELD is Distinguished Professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. He has written widely on the topics of adult education, critical thinking, and teaching and has received numerous awards for his books, including the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education and the Imogene E. Okes Award for Outstanding Research in Adult Education.

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The widely–renowned adult educator Stephen Brookfield explains how teachers in settings as diverse as college, adult education, and secondary school can resolve common teaching dilemmas by becoming more responsive to the emotions, tensions, and pace of student learning in order to build trust and overcome students′ resistance to learning.

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