Emergent Teaching: A Path of Creativity, Significance, and Transformation

Crowell, Sam/ Reid-marr, David

ISBN 10: 1475802544 / ISBN 13: 9781475802542

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013

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168 pages. 9.00x0.70x6.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Emergent Teaching: A Path of Creativity, Significance, and Transformation
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475802544
• ISBN 13: 9781475802542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.43 kilograms

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Synopsis

Inspiring teachers to teach with more spontaneity and creativity within a highly constrained educational environment, this text demonstrates through descriptive stories strategies for emergent teaching. The text is consistent with the theoretical understandings and research in the complexity sciences but takes a narrative approach, giving examples through stories, myths, and parables.

About the Author

Sam Crowell is professor of education at California State University, San Bernardino and founder and co-director of the MA in Holistic and Integrative Education. The program has been recognized nationally as a model of transformative learning in a study funded by the Fetzer Foundation and published in the Journal for Transformative Education. The program has produced five educators who have been recognized as teacher-of-the-year, which just ten cohorts having graduated.

David Reid-Marr is an adjunct professor in the MA in Holistic and Integrative Education at California State University, San Bernardino and teaches full time at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, a highly regarded high school for the arts.