The Wisdom of Practice: Essays on Teaching, Learning, and Learning to Teach

The Wisdom of Practice presents, for the first time in book form, all the major works of Lee S. Shulman on K–12 education written over his long and remarkable career Renowned as a key figure in education over the past three decades, Shulman is widely cited and admired, but his groundbreaking work has never before been collected in one volume. This collection, easy to use for reference or classroom text, performs an enormous service to all those in the field, from education researchers to faculty and students in graduate programs in teacher education to K–12 education leaders. 

Spis treści:
Sources.
About the Author.
Acknowledgments.
Foreword (Pat Hutchings, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching).
Introduction (Suzanne M. Wilson, Michigan State University).
1. Reconstruction of Educational Research.
2. Psychology and Mathematics Education.
3. The Psychology of School Subjects: A Premature Obituary?
4. Autonomy and Obligation: The Remote Control of Teaching.
5. The Practical and the Eclectic: A Deliberation on Teaching and Educational Research.
6. Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching.
7. Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of the New Reform.
8. The Wisdom of Practice: Managing Complexity in Medicine and Teaching.
9. Disciplines of Inquiry in Education: A New Overview.
10. Teaching Alone, Learning Together: Needed Agendas for the New Reforms.
11. The Paradox of Teacher Assessment.
12. A Union of Insufficiencies: Strategies for Teacher Assessment in a Period of Educational Reform.
13. Research on Teaching: A Historical and Personal Perspective.
14. Teacher Portfolios: A Theoretical Activity.
15. Aristotle Had It Right: On Knowledge and Pedagogy.
16. Joseph Jackson Schwab (1909–1988).
17. Calm Seas, Auspicious Gales.
18. Teaching as Community Property: Putting an End to Pedagogical Solitude.
19. Just in Ca se: Reflections on Learning from Experience.
20. Communities of Learners and Communities of Teachers.
21. Professional Development: Learning from Experience.
22. Theory, Practice, and the Education of Professionals.
23. Professing the Liberal Arts.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Lee S. Shulman has been president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching since 1997. From 1963 to 1982, Shulman was professor of educational psychology and medical education at Michigan State University. From 1982 to 2000, he was on the faculty at Stanford University.   He is a former president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) as well as a past president of the National Academy of Education. Shulman has received the AERA′s career award for Distinguished Contributions to Educational Research as well as the American Psychological Association′s E. L. Thorndike Award for Distinguished Psychological Contributions to Education. A Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, he was also elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.

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The Wisdom of Practice presents, for the first time in book form, all the major works of Lee S. Shulman on K–12 education written over his long and remarkable career Renowned as a key figure in education over the past three decades, Shulman is widely cited and admired, but his groundbreaking work has never before been collected in one volume. This collection, easy to use for reference or classroom text, performs an enormous service to all those in the field, from education researchers to faculty and students in graduate programs in teacher education to K–12 education leaders.