false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180329183m/1027080.jpg 1027080 1 Peter Elbow's widely acclaimed and original theories on the writing process, set forth in Writing Without Teachers and Writing With Power, have earned him a reputation as a leading educational innovator. Now Elbow has drawn together twelve of his essays on the nature of learning and teaching to suggest a comprehensive philosophy of education. At once theoretical and down-to-earth, this collection will appeal not only to teachers, adminitrators and students, but to anyone with a love of learning. Elbow explores the "contraries" in the educational process, in particular his theory that clear thinking can be enhanced by inviting indecision, incoherence, and paradoxical thinking. The essays, written over a period of twenty-five years, are engaged in a single enterprise: to arrive at insights or conclusions about learning and teaching while still doing justice to the "rich messiness" of intellectual inquiry. Drawing his conclusions from his own perplexities as a student and as a teacher, Elbow discusses the value of interdisciplinary teaching, his theory of "cooking" (an interaction of conflicting ideas), the authority relationship in teaching and the value of specifying learning objectives. A full section is devoted to evaluation and feedback, both of students and faculty. Finally, Elbow focuses on the need to move beyond the skepticism of critical thinking to what he calls "methodological belief"--an ability to embrace more than one point of view. 1013329 22 10 1987 Embracing Contraries: Explorations in Learning and Teaching total:5|5:1|4:3|3:1| 5 20 10 0 5 0 false false Wed Jul 22 23:29:10 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 23:29:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 29 13:11:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 13:11:27 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jan 06 20:29:16 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 20:29:16 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 18 21:04:26 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 21:04:26 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Oct 05 01:56:12 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 01:56:12 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Sep 11 21:10:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 21:10:00 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue May 27 12:22:34 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 12:22:34 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sat Mar 08 20:18:13 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 20:18:21 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Dec 06 15:23:59 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 15:23:59 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Tue Oct 16 21:29:07 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 16 21:29:07 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1027080