When Teaching Becomes Learning: A Theory and Practice of Teaching

by Eric Sotto

Intended to help anyone who teaches, this book has something of a cult following. Drawing on extensive teaching experience, the author presents a personal account of good practice, written in an engaging and accessible style and based on extensive scholarly sources.

Part I 'Learning' and Part II 'Teaching' complement one another, and the book as a whole offers an insight into how to teach in any set of circumstances. It does so without being prescriptive, instead helping teachers to think through their own problems and situations. As a result When Teaching Becomes Learning is a book to which teachers will return on countless occasions. 


This edition has been updated throughout and now has 2 new chapters - Reflections of Educational Technology, and Why Teach? Chapters are now also divided up so they are each shorter and more user-friendly than before.

332 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Peter Rogers · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. Got me thinking about some useful components of teaching and learning.

Parts of book are like a Socratic dialog that analyzes foundational aspects of learning and teaching.

Interesting comparisons with learning in animals.

Very insightful book.