Learning, Leading, and the Best-Loved Self in Teaching and Teacher Education Edited By Cheryl J. Craig, Denise M. McDonald, and Gayle A. Curtis
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Realizing the importance of “the best-loved self” while teaching and learning, a group of professors in the US introduced this concept to pre-service teachers in universities, provided professional development for in-service teachers, and conducted research. In response to this need, The Best-Loved Self: Learning and Leading in Teaching and Teacher Education raises this issue by documenting cross-disciplinary teachers’ discoveries when teaching. As the editor stated, this book provides a wide range of points of view about the need to cultivate teachers’ and teacher educators’ best-loved self in the classroom. The concept of the best-loved self is subtle yet essential in all learning and teaching situations, as emphasized by Craig (2013, 2017, 2020). who has renewed attention to Schwab’s concept of the best-loved self, which was first introduced in his 1954 article Eros and education: A discussion of one aspect of discussion (Schwab, 1954).
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