Teaching Is a Human Interaction : How Thoughtful Educators Respond, Are Respo...

by Jones, Alexis L

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Teaching Is a Human Interaction : How Thoughtful Educators Respond, Are Responsive, and Take Responsibility, Paperback by Jones, Alexis L., ISBN 9798887301488, ISBN-13 9798887301488, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "This book contains an argument supported by education philosophers and my own composite stories, data, and experiences. I mention a number of scholars (., Benjamin, 1988; Buber, 1970; Noddings, 2005, 2013; Palmer, 1983; van Manen, 1986, 1991, 2000) who address important human issues in the field of education, and I do my best to tie their work and my own together to show common themes within the issues of care, responsivity, and relational ethics. The first part of th (Introduction and Chapters1-3) is primarily philosophical, and I share the thoughts of the aforementioned scholars and others on topics relating to the very human work teachers do. In Chapter 1, I address what most of the public believes teachers' work is all about: caring about their students. However, caring for and about students are two different things, and while every teacher candidate is well primed to answer the interview question, "Why teaching?" with, "I just love children," the concept of caring and what this type of relational work does to teachers is more complex. Chapter 2 follows this with a description of relational ethics and what is missing from some of the more recent empirical work on student-teacher relationships; namely, that the relationship is not a means to an end. The

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