The Activities of Teaching
"Having this book back in print will be a boon to all who want to understand the deeper and more elusive meanings of teaching. The penetrating analyses are as pertinent today as they were nearly thirty years ago when the book was first published."
—Gary D. Fenstermacher, The University of Michigan
Written during a time when ordinary language analysis dominated Anglo-American philosophy, The Activities of Teaching ranks among the most thorough and illuminating examinations of the concept of teaching. However, it is more than a text about teaching; it is a text that teaches. Written with grace and clarity, the reader is always the author's first consideration. Each chapter contains two parts; the first extends and deepens the analysis of teaching; the second provides the reader with the background necessary to grasp the increasingly sophisticated argument. Each chapter concludes with a set of questions for further exploration of the ideas presented in the text. Suitable as a text for graduate courses in foundations and philosophy of education, in teaching and teacher education, or as a reference for those who study teaching, this work remains one of the very best analytical treatments of the concept of teaching.
Partial table of contents:
The Structure of Teaching
The Modes of Teaching
Teaching & the Formation of Beliefs
Teaching, Knowing, & the Problem of Certainty
Teaching, Truth, & False Belief
Learning
Teaching, Explaining, & Giving Reasons
Judging
Wondering & the Roots of Motivation
A Nonanalytic Postscript on the Activities of Teaching
Thomas F. Green is professor emeritus of education and educational foundations and the founding editor of the Educational Policy Research Center at Syracuse University. He has been a member of many of the preeminent philosophy societies and was president of the Philosophy of Education Society in 1975. Professor Green is also the author of Predicting the Behavior of the Educational System and Work, Leisure, and the American School.
1998/ 260 pp./
paper $30.95/ISBN: 0-9658339-5-X