Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching
@article{Shulman1986ThoseWU,
title={Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching},
author={Lee S. Shulman},
journal={Educational Researcher},
year={1986},
volume={15},
pages={14 - 4}
}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…
13,534 Citations
Practicing what we teach
- Education
- 1991
Teacher education holds ironies that I suspect are absent in the education of other professionals. Because we are teachers of teachers, the principles we study, value, and carefully submit to our…
What I ‘Know’: Literary Studies and the Teaching of English
- Education
- 2016
Abstract This essay unfolds through a series of juxtapositions, involving storytelling and writing of a more analytical nature. In thinking about what I ‘know’ as an English teacher, my aim has been…
Teachers and the Academic Disciplines
- Education
- 2016
Alasdair MacIntyre's argument, that teaching is not a social practice, has been extensively criticised, and indeed teaching is normally understood more generally to be a form of generic activity that…
The nature of knowledge in sport pedagogy
- Philosophy
- 2000
Charles Dickens (1854/1982) opened his classic work Hard Times with these words: "Now, what l want are, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in lije. Plant…
What is critical about critical pedagogy? Conflicting conceptions of criticism in the curriculum*
- Sociology
- 2018
Abstract In this paper, I explore the problems of cultivating a critical attitude in pedagogy given problems with accounts grounded in critical social theory, rational liberalism and pragmatic…
"Who Am I?": The Biblical Moses as a Metaphor for Teaching.
- Education
- 2015
This essay presents Moses, the protagonist of the biblical books of Exodus and Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible, as a playful but generative metaphor for current teaching practices and experiences in…
Chapter 1 Developing Socially Just Subject-Matter Instruction: A Review of the Literature on Disciplinary Literacy Teaching
- Education
- 2007
In a 1996 American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) article, Deborah Ball and Suzanne Wilson (Ball & Wilson, 1996) made an argument for “integrity in teaching,” in which they framed integrity as…
Learning to Let Them Learn: Yielding Power to Students in a Literacy Methods Course
- Education
- 2002
I asked students in my preservice literacy methods course to read and comment on their peers' writing one day, one student wrote in her journal, "What right do I have to criticize the writing of my…
Why Models Matter: An Alternate View on Professional Growth in Teaching
- Education
- 1992
These contrasting perspectives on teaching provide a convenient point of departure for my response to Kagan's review. How researchers frame teaching inevitably colors both the questions they choose…
God-like educators in a fallen world
- Education
- 2012
For many educators, encountering Shulmanʼs 1986 articulation of "pedagogical
content knowledge" (PCK) brings an epiphany. It names something we are sure exists, and
recognises that "there really is…
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 21 REFERENCES
Disciplines of Inquiry in Education: An Overview
- Education
- 1981
Few works in the English language are as rich as Shakespeare's Hamlet. One phrase is of particular interest . Hamlet is in deep grief and despair over the recent death of his father, King of Denmark.…
Science, Curriculum, and Liberal Education: Selected Essays
- Education
- 1978
What is a liberal education and what part can science play in it? How should we think about the task of developing a curriculum? How should educational research conceive of its goals? Joseph Schwab's…
The Practical and the Eclectic: A Deliberation on Teaching and Educational Research
- Education
- 1984
When reading the works of John Dewey, I am struck by the consistency with which the same fundamental model of biological and intellectual adaptation is employed to elucidate such different processes…
Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue
- History
- 1958
Somewhat in the manner in which "hot" and "cool" have flipped in their uses since the 1920s, so with "ancient" and "modern". In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the moderni were the logicians and…
Relation of wait-time and rewards to the development of language, logic, and fate control: Part II-Rewards
- Psychology
- 1974
In Part I it was shown that by varying the duration of pauses in two locations the length of student statements increased, the number of alternative explanations offered multiplied, and the overall…
The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages
- Economics
- 1936
1. What is a university? 2. Abelard and the renaissance of the twelfth century 3. Salerno 4. Bologna 5. Paris.
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
- EconomicsScience
- 1974
Three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty are described: representativeness, availability of instances or scenarios, which is often employed when people are asked to assess the frequency of a class or the plausibility of a particular development.