Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher 2nd Edition

The revised second edition of the landmark book, Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, offers an updated guide for faculty to the process of becoming critically reflective teachers. Filled with practical tools and expert insight, this volume helps facilitate a journey of constructive self-critique. Stephen Brookfield—the award-wining educator and bestselling author—explains how to confront the contradictions involved in creating democratic classrooms by using critical reflection as a tool for ongoing personal and professional development. He explains the best way to unearth and scrutinize teaching assumptions by using four specific lenses: students' eyes, colleagues' perceptions, relevant theory and research, and personal experience.

Targeting faculty at all levels and across disciplines, this personal guide explores how practicing critical reflection can help align faculty with desired student outcomes, to view their practice from new perspectives, and engage learners by using varied teaching formats. Critical reflection can also aid in understanding and managing classroom power dynamics, modeling critical thinking for students, as well as working with the complexities of diverse classrooms.

This revised second edition includes a wealth of new material and contains chapters on such timely topics as critical reflection in the context of social media, teaching race and racism, leadership in a critically reflective key, and team teaching as critical reflection. All chapters have been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect today's classroom formats, whether online or face-to-face, or in large lectures or small groups.

Written for any educator willing to challenge their own assumptions, Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher offers the foundational information and practical tools needed for teachers to reach their true potential.

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION

"Brookfield takes a fresh look at the application of critical reflection to teaching….The reader will find both the familiar and the new covered in this storehouse of insightful, innovative, and practical critically reflective techniques.…Most appealing is Brookfield's openness to how the various techniques may be individually tailored by educators to fit unique situations. This makes for a book that is not only richly theory-based, but one that is also critically important for the educator's personal and professional development."
—Adult Learning

REVISED AND UPDATED, THE LANDMARK RESOURCE AND HANDS-ON GUIDE TO THE ESSENTIAL PRACTICE THAT BUILDS BETTER TEACHERS

From Stephen D. Brookfield, winner of the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education, comes the revised and updated edition of the classic resource that offers faculty a practical guide for developing the skills for fostering transformative learning by becoming critically reflective educators.

Filled with illustrative examples from a wide variety of classroom settings, the volume explores in detail what critical reflection is and why it is so vital for becoming a skillful teacher. Brookfield shows how educators can reframe teaching by viewing it through four distinctive and complementary lenses: through their students' eyes, colleagues' perceptions, relevant theory and research, and personal experience.

Designed as a practical resource, the second edition contains completely revised chapters as well as new chapters on topics that reflect today's teaching environment including information on social media, teaching race and racism, leadership, and critiquing critically reflective teaching.

Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher outlines for educators a process for becoming critically reflective about teaching, confronting the contradictions involved in creating democratic classrooms, and using critical reflection as a tool for ongoing personal and professional development.