The Good Preschool Teacher: Six Teachers Reflect on Their Lives (Early Childhood Education Series) - Softcover

Ayers, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807729469 ISBN 13: 9780807729465

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 1989

Synopsis

This important book is the result of an in-depth inquiry into the lives and work of six outstanding preschool teachers. Through a creative, original combination of interviews, letters, vignettes, interpretive analysis, and reflections, the author describes and links together the events, people, and experiences that have made these women the excellent teachers they are.

Ayers’ method of using autobiographical reflection to understand teaching practice will be excellent for use in pre-service teacher education classes and inservice teacher renewal efforts. Well-written and highly readable, this book is essential for early childhood practitioners―both women and men―at all levels and within all types of services, and will appeal to researchers and parents, as well.

About this title

Book Description:

“If teachers are to continue to grow, they must at some point begin to study themselves.”
—From the Foreword by Vivian Gussin Paley

From the Author:

William Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired), education activist, and bestselling author of Teaching the Taboo: Courage and Imagination in the Classroom (with Rick Ayers), To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Third Edition, and To Teach: The Journey, in Comics (with Ryan Alexander-Tanner).

About this edition

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0807729469
• ISBN 13: 9780807729465
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176