Learning from Experience: Memory and the Teacher's Account of Teaching

By Miriam Ben-Peretz

Explores the development of teachers'professional knowledge.

This book explores several aspects of learning from experience as reported by retired teachers: the nature of teachers' memories, the structure of teachers' narratives, and the manner in which teachers transform concrete experiences into practical wisdom. Teachers, like other professional practitioners, learn from their experiences, which shape the wisdom of practice enacted in classrooms. Memory of professional events is conceived as providing the basis for the construction of the personal professional knowledge of teachers. The book provides insights into the nature of human memories in a professional context.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791423042
• ISBN13: 9780791423042
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher