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Teaching as a performing art

Title
Teaching as a performing art / Seymour B. Sarason ; foreword by Maxine Greene.
Author
Sarason, Seymour Bernard, 1919-2010.
Publication
New York : Teachers College Press, ©1999.

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Description
xii, 171 pages; 23 cm
Summary
In his most recent work and with his usual perceptiveness, Seymour Sarason probes the topic of teaching as a performing art. As always, Sarason's writing is rich with insight garnered from 45 years of teaching and a lifetime devotion to educational issues.
Subject
  • Teaching
  • Teachers
  • Performing arts
  • Faculty
  • Teaching
  • teachers
  • teaching
  • Lehrerverhalten
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references .
Contents
Some personal reflections on a teaching career -- Performing artists and audiences -- Performers and the organizational context -- The nurturing of interest and talent -- The teacher as performer -- The classroom and the school culture -- Discovering the significance of art for psychology and education -- The selection of teachers -- The problematic place of theory in the preparation of teachers -- The overarching goal and the performing teacher -- Students as teachers -- Criticism and scapegoating.
ISBN
  • 0807738905
  • 9780807738900
  • 0807738913
  • 9780807738917
  • 9780807774960
  • 0807774960
LCCN
99034549
OCLC
  • ocm41419628
  • 41419628
  • SCSB-8899668
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library