College Teaching: Developing Perspective Through Dialogue - By Michael W. Galbraith

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Book Review: The ideas that “teachers are self-made” or “naturally born” are one of the dominant and enduring “myths” of becoming a teacher. The power of this book is that it demythologizes these myths by stating that good college teaching: “. . . occurs before, during, and after the classroom that sums up the experience” (p. viii). College teachers are not made and in our own experiences in graduate school many of us have not taken a single course in teaching or pedagogy. Galbraith does not make the common error that college teachers already know how to teach. Instead, he starts from the very beginning of assuming nothing and draws on research, theory, and the philosophy of adult learning to inform his discussion of college teaching.

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