• DOI:10.3102/0013189X015002004
Corpus ID: 1673489

Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching

@article{Shulman1986ThoseWU,
  title={Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching},
  author={L. S. Shulman},
  journal={Educational Researcher},
  year={1986},
  volume={15},
  pages={14 - 4}
}

L. S. Shulman

Published 1986

Psychology

Educational Researcher

I don't know in what fit of pique George Bernard Shaw wrote that infamous aphorism, words that have plagued members of the teaching profession for nearly a century. They are found in "Maxims for Revolutionists," an appendix to his play Man and Superman. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches" is a calamitous insult to our profession, yet one readily repeated even by teachers. More worrisome, its philosophy often appears to underlie the policies concerning the occupation and activities of… CONTINUE READING

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