Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher Hardback - 2017 - 2nd Edition

The revised second edition of the landmark book, Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, offers an updated guide for faculty to the process of becoming critically reflective teachers. Filled with practical tools and expert insight, this volume helps facilitate a journey of constructive self-critique. Stephen Brookfield--the award-wining educator and bestselling author--explains how to confront the contradictions involved in creating democratic classrooms by using critical reflection as a tool for ongoing personal and professional development. He explains the best way to unearth and scrutinize teaching assumptions by using four specific lenses: students' eyes, colleagues' perceptions, relevant theory and research, and personal experience.

Targeting faculty at all levels and across disciplines, this personal guide explores how practicing critical reflection can help align faculty with desired student outcomes, to view their practice from new perspectives, and engage learners by using varied teaching formats. Critical reflection can also aid in understanding and managing classroom power dynamics, modeling critical thinking for students, as well as working with the complexities of diverse classrooms.

This revised second edition includes a wealth of new material and contains chapters on such timely topics as critical reflection in the context of social media, teaching race and racism, leadership in a critically reflective key, and team teaching as critical reflection. All chapters have been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect today's classroom formats, whether online or face-to-face, or in large lectures or small groups.

Written for any educator willing to challenge their own assumptions, Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher offers the foundational information and practical tools needed for teachers to reach their true potential.