Teaching Change

How to Develop Independent Thinkers Using Relationships, Resilience, and Reflection
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4214-4261-7
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 676 g

This pathbreaking book for educators shows that focusing on relationships, resilience, and reflection can better prepare graduates for the future.

Learning something new—particularly something that might change your mind—is much more difficult than most teachers think. Because people think with their emotions and are influenced by their communities and social groups, humans tend to ignore new information unless it fits their existing worldview. Thus facts alone, even if discussed in detail, typically fail to open minds and create change. In a world in need of graduates who can adapt to new information and situations, we need to renew our educational commitment to producing flexible and independent thinkers.

In Teaching Change, José Antonio Bowen argues that education needs to be redesigned to take into account how human thinking, behaviors, bias, and change really work. Drawing on new research, Bowen explores how we can create better conditions for learning that focus less on teachers and content and more on students and process. He also examines student psychology, history, assumptions, anxiety, and bias and advocates for education to focus on a new 3Rs—relationships, resilience, and reflection. Finally, he suggests explicit learning designs to foster the ability to think for yourself.

The case for a liberal (by which Bowen means liberating) education has never been stronger, but, he says, it needs to be redesigned to achieve the goal of creating lifelong learners and citizens capable of divergent and independent thinking. With an expansive and powerful argument, Teaching Change combines elegant and gripping explanations of recent and wide-ranging research from biology, economics, education, and neuroscience with hundreds of practical suggestions for individual teachers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowen, José Antonio

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Grundschulen, Hauptschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I. Change and Learning
1. Educating for Uncertainty
2. Your Brain-Closet
3. Aiming Your Flashlight
4. The Difficulty of Thinking for Yourself
5. The Difficulty of Thinking with Others (and Why Discussion Can Fail)
Part II. A New 3Rs
6. Relationships
7. Resilience
8. Reflection
Part III. Learning to Change
9. Driving Change
10. Teaching Change
11. Designing Change
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bowen, José Antonio
José Antonio Bowen (DALLAS, TX) is the author of Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning and Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers Using Relationships, Resilience, and Reflection. He is the former president of Goucher College.

José Antonio Bowen is the author of the widely acclaimed Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning. After teaching at Stanford University, he went on to become the Caestecker Professor at Georgetown University, a dean at Miami University and Southern Methodist University, and, later, the president of Goucher College.