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Teaching What Can't be Taught
David Rigoni
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Description for Teaching What Can't be Taught
Hardback. Some of life's most important lessons cannot be explicitly taught and learned. David Rigoni uses a shaman metaphor to examine how the most important learning in a professional program takes place between the lines of the formal curriculum. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JNKC; JNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 367.
The current educational culture of standards, accountability, and creeping educational capitalism finds teachers increasingly teaching laundry lists of facts and skills. Less attention is being paid to the 'big picture' or worldview. Author David Rigoni offers an alternative perspective. Using a shaman metaphor, he examines how the most important learning in a professional program takes place between the lines of the formal curriculum. He argues that this worldview change ought to be intentional and that all aspects of the educational process ought to work to that end. To clarify what is needed, the book then looks to educators from throughout ... Read more
The current educational culture of standards, accountability, and creeping educational capitalism finds teachers increasingly teaching laundry lists of facts and skills. Less attention is being paid to the 'big picture' or worldview. Author David Rigoni offers an alternative perspective. Using a shaman metaphor, he examines how the most important learning in a professional program takes place between the lines of the formal curriculum. He argues that this worldview change ought to be intentional and that all aspects of the educational process ought to work to that end. To clarify what is needed, the book then looks to educators from throughout ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9780810843622
SKU
V9780810843622
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About David Rigoni
David Rigoni is an associate professor and chair of the Teacher Education Department at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has 14 years classroom experience as a high school English teacher.
Reviews for Teaching What Can't be Taught
...offers educators a different view of education, in which the teacher functions like a shaman, changing the world view of an apprentice.
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