Teaching Expertise in Three Countries - by Akiko Hayashi (Paperback)
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- A comparison of the development of expertise in preschool teaching in China, Japan, and the United States.
- About the Author: Akiko Hayashi is assistant professor at Keio University in Japan and the coauthor of Teaching Embodied, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
- 208 Pages
- Education, Comparative
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"While many of us assume that experience makes teachers better at their jobs, remarkably little research has been done to understand how teachers develop expertise and how it affects their teaching. In Teaching Expertise in Three Countries, Akiko Hayashi gives us a remarkable look at the careers of teachers over the course of more than fifteen years. Not only does her research cover a remarkable timespan, it also studies teachers from three national contexts: Japan, China, and the United States. Hayashi builds on the research that began with Joseph Tobin et al.'s celebrated 1991 book Preschool in Three Cultures, examining six teachers profiled in Tobin's 2009 follow up Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited. Hayashi showed those six teachers videos shot in their classrooms twelve years earlier and asked them to reflect on how they have changed. She also interviewed 120 experienced childhood educators from China, Japan, and the US. The teachers' analysis of changes in teaching style and even the way they talked about their trajectory from novice to expert uncovered important cultural differences. While Japanese teachers described experienced educators as less "in their own heads," Chinese teachers said they took command of a classroom. And American teachers with experience reportedly knew when to let things go. Across the three cultures, experienced teachers also had remarkably similar things to say about their approach to teaching. Experienced teachers in all three cultures describe themselves as being quieter, knowing children better, being more "present" and "in the moment," and having better judgment about which incidents require their intervention. All the same, they followed different professional trajectories. While Chinese educators embraced new ideas and the younger educators that brought those ideas into the classroom, Japanese educators valued traditional methods. US educators were encouraged to adopt new research in their teaching practices, but the new ideas required them to follow rules and scripts, limiting their ability to make use of years of experience. Teaching Expertise in Three Countries helps us see how experience forms teachers, despite national differences, and how we can best support them to make use of their incredible knowledge"--Book Synopsis
A comparison of the development of expertise in preschool teaching in China, Japan, and the United States. In Teaching Expertise in Three Countries, Akiko Hayashi shows how teachers from Japan, China, and the United States think about what it means to be an expert teacher. Based on interviews with teachers conducted over the span of fifteen years and videos taken in their classrooms, Hayashi gives us a valuable portrait of expert teachers in the making. While Hayashi's research uncovered cultural variations in the different national contexts, her analysis of how teachers adapted their pedagogy throughout their careers also revealed many cross-national similarities. Younger teachers often describe themselves as being in a rush, following scripts, and "talking too much," while experienced teachers describe themselves as being quieter, knowing children better, and being more present. Including a foreword by scholar of early childhood education Joseph Tobin, Teaching Expertise in Three Countries provides a foundation for understanding the sequence and pathways of development over the first decade of teaching in three national contexts, demonstrating the value of the field of comparative education in the process.Review Quotes
"This study provides a deep portrait of teachers' professional development over the course of their careers--what they learn and how they learn it--going beyond the more typical novice-expert single-moment studies and beyond induction studies that end by the third year of teaching. It also makes a notable contribution to comparative studies of pedagogy. It accomplishes both while offering a text readable enough to engage undergraduate education students, or to entice those harried university instructors to enjoy the book with their feet up while discovering a better way to improve teaching than writing ever more exhaustive lecture notes."-- "Education Review"
"In Teaching Expertise, Akiko Hayashi offers a culturally complex insight into how teaching expertise manifests in China, Japan, and the United States. Hayashi's findings about how expertise and experience are affected by larger social forces is critical."--Gerald LeTendre, author of Learning to be Adolescent
"This fascinating study of how teachers develop their skills combines rich ethnographic detail with sensitive analysis. It will be enlightening for anyone interested in teacher development, as well as education in the countries researched."--Peter Cave, author of Schooling Selves
About the Author
Akiko Hayashi is assistant professor at Keio University in Japan and the coauthor of Teaching Embodied, also published by the University of Chicago Press.Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .49 Inches (D)
Weight: .71 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 208
Genre: Education
Sub-Genre: Comparative
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Akiko Hayashi
Language: English
Street Date: May 6, 2022
TCIN: 1006098462
UPC: 9780226818672
Item Number (DPCI): 247-44-2561
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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