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Teaching Excellence in Higher Education

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Authors:
  1. Marshall Gregory

    1. Butler University, USA

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Editors:
  1. Melissa Valiska Gregory

    1. University of Toledo, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Good Teaching and Educational Vision: Not the Same Thing as Disciplinary Expertise

    • Marshall Gregory, Melissa Valiska Gregory
    Pages 1-21

  3. Forgetting, Learning, and Living: How Education Makes a Difference Even Though We Forget Most of What We Learn

    • Marshall Gregory, Melissa Valiska Gregory
    Pages 23-47

  4. The Dynamics of Desire in Everyday Classrooms

    • Marshall Gregory, Melissa Valiska Gregory
    Pages 49-72

  5. Ethical Pedagogy

    • Marshall Gregory, Melissa Valiska Gregory
    Pages 73-94

  6. From Shakespeare on the Page to Shakespeare on the Stage: What I Learned about Teaching in Acting Class

    • Marshall Gregory, Melissa Valiska Gregory
    Pages 95-115

  7. Love? What’s Love Got to Do with It?

    • Marshall Gregory, Melissa Valiska Gregory
    Pages 117-138

  8. Developing Your Own Philosophy of Education: Principles, Not Personalities

    • Marshall Gregory, Melissa Valiska Gregory
    Pages 139-167

  9. What Is Teaching, After All?

    • Marshall Gregory, Melissa Valiska Gregory
    Pages 169-199

  10. Teacherly Ethos Revisited

    • Marshall Gregory, Melissa Valiska Gregory
    Pages 201-217

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 219-257
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About this book

Marshall Gregory argues that teachers at the university and high school levels can achieve teaching excellence by grounding their teaching in pedagogical theory that takes into account students' abilities and the ultimate goals of teaching: to develop students' capacities for thought, reflection, questioning, and engagement to their fullest extent.

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"Teaching Excellence in Higher Education . . . expands and renews our immediate experience of this crucial dimension of the profession, whatever that immediate experience has been." - Walter L. Reed, William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor, Emory University, USA

Authors, Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Toledo, USA

    Melissa Valiska Gregory

  • Butler University, USA

    Marshall Gregory

About the editor

Marshall Gregory was the Harry Ice Professor of English, Liberal Education, and Pedagogy at Butler University, USA.

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