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- Title
EXPERIENCED TEACHERS INSIST THAT EFFECTIVE TEACHING IS PRIMARILY A SCIENCE.
- Authors
Ivie, Stanley D.; Roebuck, Flora; Short, Rodney
- Abstract
Is teaching primarily a science or is it essentially an art? And reciprocally, should teacher education be grounded in the behavioral sciences or should it more nearly reflect artistic disciplines? These are the questions to which the following article addresses itself. In order to answer these questions, the researchers collected data from 241 experienced teachers. In addition to furnishing data about their teaching experiences, the teachers were asked to select the four quotations (out of a total of eight) that best expressed their thoughts concerning teaching. Four quotations characterized teaching as a science. The other four quotations characterized it as an art. An analysis of the data showed the teachers in the sample overwhelmingly (76% of the time) selected quotations describing teaching as an art. If experienced teachers find their classroom activities to be more "art-like" than "science-like," teacher education should pay more attention to the aesthetic side of teaching. After all, a spoonful of sugar (art) might just help the medicine (science) go down in the most delightful way.
- Subjects
TEACHING; TEACHER attitudes; PHILOSOPHY of education; ART in education; METHODOLOGY
- Publication
Education, 2001, Vol 121, Issue 3, p519
- ISSN
0013-1172
- Publication type
Article