Teaching in Mind : How Teacher Thinking Shapes Education

by Yero, Judith Lloyd

• ISBN13: 9780971198333
• ISBN10: 0971198330
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Mindflight Pub

Table of Contents

Preface	vi
Acknowledgments	viii
Introduction	ix
The Power of Teachers	1	(19)
The Four Curriculums
The Autonomous Teacher
A Shift of Perspectives
A Shift from Things to People
What's Good for the Goose...
The Reflective Teacher
What's Behind Your Choice?
Know Thyself!
Personal Preferences
Are You Being Served?
Taking the First Steps
I Don't Have Time
Beliefs, Values, and Worldviews: An Introduction	20	(19)
I Know...or I Believe...?
What Are Beliefs?
Fixed Facts, Alternative Beliefs
Beliefs and Perceptions
What Should Teachers Believe?
Sources of Conflict
Values
Conflicted Values
Education as Enculturation
Making Sense of the World
Education's Dominant Metaphor
The Newtonian Worldview as a Source of Conflict
Which Worldview Is ``Correct''?
Metaphors and Meanings	39	(18)
Teaching Is Like...
Metaphor---Just a Figure of Speech?
Early Metaphors in Education
Interpreting Metaphors---An Individual Process
Current Metaphors in Education
A Lesson Is a Journey
Lessons as Moving Objects Being Educated Is Possessing Knowledge Objects
An Alternate Interpretation
Time Is a Resource
Concepts Are Objects---What Kind of Objects?
Beliefs Behind the Metaphor
Journeys, Tools, or Something Else?
Institutional Metaphors
What Do You Mean by That?
Reading or Doing?
Metaphors of Education	57	(21)
Categories---The Stuff of Experience
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Metaphor
Language---Externalizing Internal Processes
The Conduit Metaphor
Beliefs and Metaphors
Metaphors and Predispositions
Metaphors and Teaching
A Case in Point---The Gardening Metaphor
Other Common Educational Metaphors
How Institutional Metaphors Influence Education
Mapping the World of Education
Teaching Is Like...A Teacher Is Like...	78	(21)
Entailments---Strings Attached to Metaphors
Variations on a Theme
Teacher as Sheep Dog
Teacher as Cook
Teacher as Sculptor
Identifying Your Metaphors
One or Many?
Analyzing Your Metaphors
Working with Your Metaphor
Digging Deeper
Evaluating Your Metaphors
Getting What You Want
Acquiring a New Metaphor
When Metaphors Collide
Tapping Into the Metaphors of Others
Beliefs---Lenses of Perception	99	(18)
Beliefs and Behavior
Parts of Beliefs
Where Do Beliefs Come From?
The Robustness of Beliefs
Thought Viruses
Medical Thought Viruses
Transforming Thought Viruses
Presuppositions
Presuppositions of ``Back to Basics''
The Upside of Presuppositions
The Unspoken Presupposition that Drives Education
Beliefs and Habits of Mind	117	(18)
Beliefs About Cause and Effect
Who's in Control?
Beliefs and Categories The Assumption of Agreement
Foreground/Background Reversal
Groups/Individuals
Benefits of Shifting the Metaphor
Labeling the Foreground
The Experts We Rarely Consult
Accentuate the Positive
The Danger of Dichotomous Thinking
Two-Dimensional Thinking
The Military Metaphor
Changing the Educational Mind	135	(16)
How Beliefs Affect Teaching
Loosening Up Beliefs
Start Small
Visions of Education	151	(15)
Education Is...
What a Vision Might Look Like
Paradise Lost?
Paradise Found---Identifying Your Vision
Identifying the Conflicts
Analyzing Your Own Vision
What Can I Do?
Beliefs about Education, Knowledge, and Understanding	166	(22)
Beliefs About...the Purpose of Education
Historical Perspective
Beliefs About...the Nature of Knowledge
Objectivist Beliefs About Knowledge
Mind as a Container
Mind as Container plus Processor
Mind as Modifiable Information Processor
Machines that Learn
I Understand...
Teaching as Fostering Relationships Between Students and Knowledge
Kinds of Knowledge
Beliefs About...Learning and Teaching	188	(21)
The Present Hierarchy
Beliefs about Learning
Education's Blind Spot
More About the Wetware
Which Processes Are Selected?
What the Brain Does Naturally
How Real Students Learn
Beliefs About Teaching
What is an Outstanding Teacher?
Teacher Efficacy
Locus of Control
Pupil-Control Ideology
Another View of Teachers
Beliefs About...The Curriculum and Standards	209	(25)
Curriculum---From the Latin Meaning A Course For Racing
The Race---Where Is the Finish Line?
Components of a Curriculum
Explicit and Implicit Curricula
The Null Curriculum
Beliefs About Standards
Standards and Benchmarks
The Case for Standards
Standards and the Bell Curve
The Paradox of Standards Testing
Standards for All---Literacy
Cultural Literacy
What Is Essential Knowledge?
World-Class Schools
Perspectives on Standards
The Future Begins Now	234	(15)
Making a Difference
Educational Soma
Shift Happens
Re-examining Conventional Wisdom
The Re-humanization of Education
Realism or Miracles?
The Ultimate Challenge for Teachers
What Now??
Appendix Self-Inventory	249	(9)
Additional Resources	258	(9)
Index	267