Approaches To Teaching

by Fenstermacher, Gary D.; Soltis, Jonas F.

• ISBN13: 9780807744482
• ISBN10: 0807744484
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-02
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Author Biography

Gary D. Fenstermacher is Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
A Note to Readers	xi
Chapter 1 APPROACHES TO TEACHING	1	(10)
Three Teachers	1	(3)
The Amazing Glasses	4	(1)
Three Approaches to Teaching	5	(2)
The Common Framework: MAKER	7	(2)
Using MAKER with the Approaches	9	(2)
Chapter 2 THE EXECUTIVE APPROACH	11	(14)
Managing Your Classroom	11	(1)
Managing Time in the Classroom	12	(3)
Features of This Approach	15	(1)
The MAKER Framework	16	(3)
Historical Roots	19	(2)
Teaching for Student Achievement	21	(2)
The Complexity of Modern Schooling	23	(2)
Chapter 3 THE FACILITATOR APPROACH	25	(19)
Your Middle School English Class	26	(2)
Historical Background	28	(2)
Humanistic Psychology	30	(2)
Normative Considerations	32	(1)
Existential Roots	33	(1)
Care Pedagogy	34	(3)
Facilitating Identity	37	(2)
Constructivism	39	(2)
Multiple Intelligences	41	(3)
Chapter 4 THE LIBERATIONIST APPROACH	44	(13)
Origins of This Approach	44	(1)
Features of the Liberationist Approach	45	(1)
Your High School Class	46	(1)
Manner in Teaching	47	(2)
The Element of Knowledge	49	(2)
Emancipatory Teaching	51	(2)
Democratic Citizenship	53	(2)
Social Justice and Identity	55	(2)
Chapter 5 REFLECTIONS ON THE THREE APPROACHES	57	(14)
A Synoptic View	57	(2)
Critical Perspectives on the Executive Approach	59	(2)
Critical Perspectives on the Facilitator Approach	61	(2)
Forging National Identity	63	(2)
Critical Perspectives on the Liberationist Approach	65	(3)
Democracy, Identity, and Diversity	68	(3)
Chapter 6 DEVELOPING YOUR APPROACH TO TEACHING	71	(5)
Three Ideas, Three Approaches	71	(2)
Becoming All Three	73	(1)
Good-bye	74	(2)
Chapter 7 CASES AND DISPUTES	76	(27)
Grading Policies	78	(1)
School and Approach Mismatch	79	(1)
Teacher-Engineer or Artist?	80	(2)
Individualized Learning	82	(1)
How Much Control Is Too Much?	83	(1)
Workbook Dilemma	83	(1)
A New Science Kit	84	(2)
Individual and Societal Needs	86	(1)
Curing Shyness	86	(1)
What Standard Shall We Use?	87	(2)
Teaching "Relevant" Literature	89	(1)
Teacher and Mother?	90	(1)
Freedom and Indoctrination	90	(1)
Too Young to Be Critical?	91	(1)
Education for Life	92	(1)
Freedom of Speech?	93	(2)
Mass or Class Culture?	95	(1)
Learning Chemistry by Discussion	96	(2)
Different Learning Styles	98	(1)
Compatibility of Approaches	98	(1)
E Pluribus Unum	99	(1)
Go Fly a Kite	100	(3)
Notes	103	(4)
Annotated Bibliography	107