Coming To Know Reflective Practice

Open the door to most college classrooms and you'llfind experts in their fields--physics mathematicspsychology--readying students for the 21st century.What you will rarely see however are professors whohave ever been formally educated in how to teach. Fordecades teacher education programs have preparedpre-college practitioners yet many institutions ofhigher learning today offer little to no preparationfor the teaching roles of faculty. This book examinesthe development of future faculty in a uniqueteaching seminar program designed to fill the gap.Using ethnographic methods Coming To Know ReflectivePractice describes through a case-study approachthe teaching lives of four doctoral students as theyengage in their first year of supervised universityteaching. Each student's emerging understandingsabout teaching and learning and their subsequenteffect on classroom practice are revealed. Educatorsand administrators interested in future facultyinitiatives and the role reflection plays in teachingdevelopment will find this book a rich resource.