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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: José Antonio BowenPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.794kg ISBN: 9781421442617ISBN 10: 1421442612 Pages: 488 Publication Date: 23 November 2021 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationJosé 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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