Overview
Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The elements of group dynamics -- Historical background: milestones in the study of interaction -- Dyadic relationships and communication -- Primary groups: leadership, conformity and cohesion -- 2 Sociometry in the classroom -- Moreno and Sociometry -- Construction of classroom sociograms -- 3 The teacher's image -- Teacher as a 'prime source' of knowledge -- Characteristics of teachers -- Motives for teaching and personal qualities -- 4 Teacher interaction styles -- Communication structure -- Categories of teaching style -- Classroom climate: learning and control -- 5 The teacher's place in society -- Historical and cultural determinants -- The teaching task -- Selecting and socializing -- Diffuseness and affectivity -- 6 Aspects of personality, self and others in the classroom -- Personality and notions of 'wholeness' -- The self-image and significant others -- Physiological factors and social expectations -- Personality, motivation and learning -- The peer group, the teacher and the child's self-concept -- 7 Social orientation and linguistic environment -- Language development and its social implications -- Language and cognition -- The teacher and the language of the classroom -- The schoolchild and his language -- 8 Towards maturity: the developmental context and implications for education -- The younger schoolchild and his acquisition of skills -- The middle years of childhood and early physical maturity -- Cognitive development -- Adolescence: reflections of self and the developing personality -- The education of adolescents -- Bibliography -- Suggestions for further reading
- | Author: Philip Gammage
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Apr 28, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 130 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1138230804
- | ISBN-13: 9781138230804
