Handbook of Teaching and Learning

Contents: 1. Learning. 2. Learning as problem solving. 3. Learning theories. 4. Behaviorism. 5. Humanism. 6. Cognitive. 7. Gestalt learning theory. 8. Social learning theory. 9. Constructivism. 10. Learning styles. 11. Teachings. 12. Approaches and strategies to teaching. 13. Cooperative learning. 14. Critical pedagogy. 15. Brain based learning. 16. Instructional design and learning theory. 17. Models of teaching. 18. Problem based learning. 19. Teaching and learning strategies. 20. Language teaching goals and methods. 21. Blooms taxonomy. 22. Learning disabilities. 23. Teacher. 24. Improving teaching. 25. Teacher planning\'s. Glossary. Index.

This book Handbook of Teaching and learning provides a comprehensive description of all aspects of teaching and learning process.

Readers can easily understand the author\'s main ideas through well organized headings. The style of writing is also clear and easy to follow. Moreover it provides ample examples and aspects of learning and teaching. Learning and teaching explores major and current themes in the learning/teaching process from an international and comparative perspective.

Topics covered includes learning learning styles theories teaching methods of teaching, reflection in education cognition excellence in education classroom interaction and assessment. Learning and teaching offers a unique introduction to significant issues affecting the nature of learning and the quality of student/teacher interaction in the classroom.

Every teacher in education who wants to refresh or re-examine his or her classroom practice building on the insights offered by recent discoveries about the biological basis of learning, at his own though provoking definitions of teaching, learning and education. (jacket)