Teaching Human Beings: The Role of Language in Education [Hardcover] [Jul 15, 1998] McKowen, Clark

This 322 page hardback book may be used in a variety of ways. For libraries it is a useful resource and reference book. For teachers, it contains scores of ideas, tips, methods, and materials. It can be used as a resource in schools of education for seminars and graduate classes for dialogue concerning the major problems confronting educators and the obligations of the classroom teacher.

There are 26 comprehensive chapters on the art and practice of teaching: How and why organisms learn, why teaching is a spritually fulfilling endeavor, and why education remains fundamental in a society that values independent, self-fulfillilng, and self-starting human beings. There are chapters on every aspect of the language arts as well as chapters on the art of teaching in general and the role of language in all disciplines: poetry in physics, sentence structure in computer science, reading in oil painting.

This is a lively, humorous, and readable book for anyone interested in education and its future form. A comprehensive view of how human beings learn, it explains why each individual must be recognized as the center of any learning environment, and shows how such an environment can be arranged.

The experiences of a human being who actively pursued the art of teaching: " . . . what a journey, what jewels along the way. . . . And wondrous creatures at every turn." --from the preface

TEACHING HUMAN BEINGS

A comprehensive philosophy of education that places the spirit of each human being at the center. A book full of sparkling ideas to stimulate months of dialogue for in-service workshops and seminars, for graduate courses in education, and for PTAs, concerned taxpayers, and anyone else who cares.

A cookbook for beginning and experienced teachers, brimming with practical and specific ideas, experiments, and investigations that work at any level and in any field of study. Every class on methods and materials should take a good look.

A challenging fresh look at composition, literature, language, poetry, and grammar, and the interconnection with all the other arts and sciences.

A resource for any teaching/learning situation: parent/child, boss/employee, veteran/novice, beloved/lover. A readable, interesting, and funny book on how human beings learn.

A primer for administrators and school boards on how to provide an optimum learning environment while saving money on record keeping, materials, testing, and class size.

A look at the extraordinary wonder of the perceived moment--and a guide to the circumstances that free human beings to direct their own learning.