When Teaching Becomes Learning: A Theory and Practice of Teaching

by Eric Sotto

Overview

Intended to help anyone who teaches, this book has something of a cult following. Drawing on extensive teaching experience, the author presents a personal account of good practice, written in an engaging and accessible style and based on extensive scholarly sources.

Part I 'Learning' and Part II 'Teaching' complement one another, and the book as a whole offers an insight into how to teach in any set of circumstances. It does so without being prescriptive, instead helping teachers to think through their own problems and situations. As a result When Teaching Becomes Learning is a book to which teachers will returban on countless occasions.

This edition has been updated throughout and now has 2 new chapters - Reflections of Educational Technology, and Why Teach? Chapters are now also divided up so they are each shorter and more user-friendly than before.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826489081
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/15/2007
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Eric Sotto is an experienced teacher and staff trainer, and has worked in the UK and internationally. He is a Chartered Psychologist, and is now mainly engaged in writing and psychotherapy.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionAcknowledgementsIntroduction
Part I Learning1 Preliminaries2 Motivation3 Two Accounts of Learning 4 The Learning Process5 Talking and Feeling 6 Perception7 Where are the Answers? 8 Why Only Living Things Learn9 Two Memories10 Explaining and Experiencing11 A Theory of Learning

Part II Teaching
12 The Transmission Method and an Alternative Approach 13 Research into Teaching14 Clarity, Enthusiasm and Variety 15 Indirectness, Opportunities and Fit16 Theory and Practice17 Reflections of Educational Technology18 Planning19 Communicating and Participating20 Interacting21 Discussing22 Difficult Lessons23 Learning a New Approach24 Variations on a Theme25 Overview26 Why Teach?
Notes and ReferencesIndex

Editorial Reviews

'...You have been able to clarify for me, in readable and understandable language, many of the intuitive feelings I have had about teaching all these years but have been unable to articulate.... Your book has also helped me to make sense out of all the conflicting cognitive theories used by psychologists, sociologists and philosophers.... The personalised and anecdotal illustrations of the different points you wished to make were so useful to help understanding' Letter to author from reader in Austria, 1994

'I am finding your book an inspiration... it has set me on a journey of reflection and reinterpretation of my own experiences of teaching and learning.' Letter from lecturer in Social Sciences, The Open University, 1995

'This is a remarkable and delightful book, presented in a style reminiscent of a cross between Woody Allen and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Eric Sotto has not so much written as crafted it from a blend of his own experience and a wide knowledge of relevant psychological theory. ' R A Becher, Professor of Education, University of Sussex, 1994

"Occasionally one comes across a book which is a little gem and which has a great personal impact. "When Teaching Becomes Learning "by Eric Sotto is such a book. Based on his extensive personal experience Sotto offers an insight without being prescriptive into how teachers can contribute to better learning."
"Medical Teacher, 2007"

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