When Teaching Becomes Learning A Theory and Practice of Teaching [Hardcover]

Intended to help anyone who teaches, this book has something of a cult following. Drawing on extensive teaching experience, the author presents a personal account of good practice, written in an engaging and accessible style and based on extensive scholarly sources.

Part I 'Learning' and Part II 'Teaching' complement one another, and the book as a whole offers an insight into how to teach in any set of circumstances. It does so without being prescriptive, instead helping teachers to think through their own problems and situations. As a result When Teaching Becomes Learning is a book to which teachers will return on countless occasions.?

This edition has been updated throughout and now has 2 new chapters - Reflections of Educational Technology, and Why Teach? Chapters are now also divided up so they are each shorter and more user-friendly than before.

Preface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionAcknowledgementsIntroduction
Part I Learning1 Preliminaries2 Motivation3 Two Accounts of Learning 4 The Learning Process5 Talking and Feeling 6 Perception7 Where are the Answers?8 Why Only Living Things Learn9 Two Memories10 Explaining and Experiencing11 A Theory of Learning

Part II Teaching
12 The Transmission Method and an Alternative Approach 13 Research into Teaching14 Clarity, Enthusiasm and Variety 15 Indirectness, Opportunities and Fit16 Theory and Practice17 Reflections of Educational Technology18 Planning19 Communicating and Participating20 Interacting21 Discussing22 Difficult Lessons23 Learning a New Approach24 Variations on a Theme25 Overview26 Why Teach?
Notes and ReferencesIndex