Ways of Thinking, Ways of Teaching

Hillocks, George; Shulman, Lee

ISBN 10: 0807738034 / ISBN 13: 9780807738030

Published by Teachers College Pr (edition ), 1999

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Synopsis:

Ways of Thinking, Ways of Teaching presents a new model of teacher thinking and action―one that explains teacher decisions about what and how to teach. Combining qualitative and quantitative data drawn from observations and interviews with urban teachers of writing, George Hillocks argues that teacher knowledge is not simply transferred from some source to the teacher. Rather, it is constructed on the basis of assumptions about epistemology, students, and subject matter. The fact of this construction helps to explain why teacher education has had so little effect on changing the classroom behavior of teachers from one generation to the next. Unlike other research on teacher thinking, this book examines what actually happens in composition classrooms, presenting large chunks of representative transcripts for analysis.

About the Author:

George Hillocks, Jr., is a professor in the departments of Education and English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Teaching Writing as Reflective Practice, which won the National Council of Teachers of English 1997 David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ways of Thinking, Ways of Teaching
Publisher: Teachers College Pr (edition )
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good