The Joy of Teaching
A Practical Guide for New College Instructors
By Peter Filene
Foreword by Ken Bain
176 pp., 5.5 x 8.5, 8 figs., notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-5603-1
Published: March 2005 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-8763-9
Published: November 2009 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-7906-6
Published: November 2009
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
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Award-winning professor Peter Filene proposes that teaching should not be like a baseball game in which the instructor pitches ideas to students to see whether they hit or strike out. Ideally, he says, teaching should resemble a game of Frisbee in which the teacher invites students to catch ideas and pass them on.
Rather than prescribe any single model for success, Filene lays out the advantages and disadvantages of various pedagogical strategies, inviting new teachers to make choices based on their own personalities, values, and goals. Filene tackles everything from syllabus writing and lecture planning to class discussions, grading, and teacher-student interactions outside the classroom. The book's down-to-earth, accessible style makes it appropriate for new teachers in all fields. Instructors in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences will all welcome its invaluable tips for successful teaching and learning.
About the Author
Peter Filene is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has earned six teaching awards. He is author of several books, including Him/Her/Self: Gender Identities in Modern America, In the Arms of Others: A Cultural History of the Right to Die, and Home and Away, a novel.
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“A useful exercise in self-reflection for new and seasoned professors alike.” —CBE—Life Sciences Edition
"A clear, concise, and elegant conversation with the reader about the goals and methods of effective education. Veteran as well as novice teachers will benefit from the examples and suggestions presented in this book."—Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"Peter Filene has made the journey into college teaching much easier, more productive, and profoundly more enjoyable. . . . He also asks his readers to confront two fundamental questions that may not pop into every professor's mind but the answers to which can, research suggests, make an enormous difference: 'What does it mean to be a teacher?' and 'How do you view your students and their needs?'"—Ken Bain, from the Foreword
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