Teachers Matter
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Teachers Matter

Educational Philosophy and Authentic Learning

  1. 143 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Teachers Matter

Educational Philosophy and Authentic Learning

About this book

Who are our teachers? Should we care about who teaches our children? Because who they are, matters. It matters because who teachers are, manifests in how they teach. The authors' analyses of prominent teachers in Anglo-Saxon philosophy of education and Muslim philosophy of education, coupled with their own narratives of what it means to be and become a teacher inform the central theme of this book, namely that teachers do matter. In addition, no attempt at good teaching and learning can manifest without having some idea of who teachers are and who they can become. In the main, becoming an authentic teacher can happen only in the presence of what it means for teachers to be or become transformative, dialectical and imaginative, deconstructive and friendly, expositors of equality and disruption, eloquent and conscientious and spiritual. It is such an understanding, which the authors advance and dare to cultivate in our institutions of primary, secondary and higher learning.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. 1 Claims of Being a Teacher: Making Teaching Defensible Again
  5. 2 Extending a Rediscovered Notion of Teaching
  6. 3 Towards a Freirean View of a Teacher-in-Becoming
  7. 4 Maxine Greene on Being a ā€œTeacher in Becomingā€
  8. 5 Jacques Derrida on Being a Teacher-in-Becoming
  9. 6 Jacques RanciĆØre on a Teacher-in-Becoming
  10. 7 Ibn Khaldun on Teachers and Teaching
  11. 8 Al-Ghazzali on Teaching
  12. 9 Teaching as Conflict and Controversy
  13. 10 On Why Teachers Matter: The Effects of Influence and Expectation
  14. 11 Postscript
  15. References
  16. Index
  17. About the Authors