The Skillful Teacher

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Now in Paperback!"Insights and practical suggestions to college educators for whom teaching students is a major part of their professional responsibility.... Brookfield will become to the field of education what Peter Drucker has become to management: a scholar who educates and influences practitioners in the field through incisive and challenging writing." --Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education "Readable innovative and perceptive. . . . The final chapters on the political realities and phenomenological truths of college teaching alone are worth the price of the book especially for prospective new or veteran college adult or continuing education teachers." --Choice Brookfield shows new and veteran teachers how to thrive on the unpredictability and diversity of classroom life. He draws from his own teaching experience and extensive research to identify critical areas in the teacher-learner relationship--such as building trust with students and overcoming resistance to learning.