Pedagogical Tact: Knowing What to Do When You Don´t Know What to Do
Max Van Manen
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Description for Pedagogical Tact: Knowing What to Do When You Don´t Know What to Do
Paperback. Describes how teacher-student relations possess an improvisational and ethical character. Internationally known educator Max van Manen shows through recognizable examples and evocative stories how good teaching is driven by the phenomenology of pedagogy. Series: Phenomenology of Practice. Num Pages: 239 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 385.
Pedagogical Tact describes how teacher-student relations possess an improvisational and ethical character. The daily realities of educators, parents, and childcare specialists are pedagogically conditioned by sensitive insights, active thoughtfulness, and the creative ability to act caringly and appropriately in the immediacy of the moment. Internationally known educator Max van Manen shows through recognizable examples and evocative stories how good teaching is driven by the phenomenology of pedagogy. His book-refocuses educators and others away from an emphasis on instrumental skills and technocratic programs toward the need for pedagogical tact;-describes how pedagogical actions have latent effects that will influence children throughout their ... Read more
Pedagogical Tact describes how teacher-student relations possess an improvisational and ethical character. The daily realities of educators, parents, and childcare specialists are pedagogically conditioned by sensitive insights, active thoughtfulness, and the creative ability to act caringly and appropriately in the immediacy of the moment. Internationally known educator Max van Manen shows through recognizable examples and evocative stories how good teaching is driven by the phenomenology of pedagogy. His book-refocuses educators and others away from an emphasis on instrumental skills and technocratic programs toward the need for pedagogical tact;-describes how pedagogical actions have latent effects that will influence children throughout their ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Left Coast Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Phenomenology of Practice
Condition
New
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
Walnut Creek, United States
ISBN
9781629582757
SKU
V9781629582757
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99-5
About Max Van Manen
Max van Manen is emeritus Professor in Research Methods, Pedagogy and Curriculum Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta, Canada, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is the leading proponent of the practice and meaning of phenomenological inquiry in pedagogy, psychology, health science, and the human sciences. He is author of numerous ... Read more
Reviews for Pedagogical Tact: Knowing What to Do When You Don´t Know What to Do
In this brilliantly conceived and poetic book, Max van Manen, makes clear that pedagogy cannot be reduced to either an abstraction, a science, a methodology, or a mind numbing form of measurement. On the contrary, for van Manen it is a practice that is as deeply self-reflective, moral and personal as it is imaginative-his is a book that not only ... Read more