Dr. Judith M. Newman

 

Finding Our Own Way: Teachers Exploring Their Assumptions is about change--the change teachers create and experience as they move toward a more flexible, interpretive view of their roles. The articles in this book were written by practicing teachers who have examined some of the uncertainties and problems they encountered when moving from a traditional to a holistic perspective in their teaching.

These teachers have written in order to share their questions, the conflicts they have undergone, and the change in beliefs that are part of becoming a learner-directed teacher. The thread that binds this collection is the realization by all of the contributors that teaching is a learning enterprise and that teachers learn from their students, from each other, and ultimately from themselves.