Questioning and Teaching: A Manual of Practice - Softcover

Dillon, James Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592447163 ISBN 13: 9781592447169

Publisher: Resource Publications (OR), 2004

Synopsis

Questions and questioning play a major role in both formal and informal educative processes. They are the means by which a child expresses the desire to understand the world outside, and they subsequently become the means by which a teacher assesses whether or not a child has satisfactorily assimilated something. The teacher can also use questions to direct and control the course of students' studies. The ability and desire to question might be considered in itself one of the aims of education. This author has made an extensive study of the place of questioning in education and this book is the fullest record to date of that study. Its scope is comprehensive. It considers questions from the point of view of the one questioning and the one being questioned, and considers pupil and teacher in both of these roles. This work is grounded in theory, research, and practice and is informed by research done in other fields such as psychotherapy, criminal interrogation, and computer science.

About this title

About the Author

J.T. Dillon is Professor of Education at the University of California, Riverside.

Edition details

• Publisher: Resource Publications (OR)
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592447163
• ISBN 13: 9781592447169
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208