The Joy of Teaching: A Practical Guide for New College Instructors
ISBN: 9780807856031 | 0807856037
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
Pub. Date: 3/1/2005
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Gathering concepts and techniques borrowed from outstanding college professors, "The Joy of Teaching provides helpful guidance for new instructors developing and teaching their first college courses. 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 a single mod... MORE
| Foreword | ix | ||
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| Acknowledgments | xi | ||
| Introduction | 1 | (6) | |
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Peter Filene is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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