Theorizing Teaching Current Status and Open Issues

• Other Authors: Praetorius, Anna-Katharina (Editor), Charalambous, Charalambos Y. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
• Subjects: Teacher training; Educational psychology; Education; teaching theory; theorizing teaching; teaching and educating teachers; comparative cross-system theory; interconnection of teaching and learning; sustained learning opportunities; theories for student learning; educational effectiveness; sustained learning opportunities for students; the artistry of teaching
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This open access book seeks to create a forum for discussing key questions regarding theories on teaching: Which theories of teaching do we have? What are their attributes? What do they contain? How are they generated? How context-sensitive and content-specific do they need to be? Is it possible or even desirable to develop a comprehensive theory of teaching? The book identifies areas of convergence and divergence among the answers to these questions by prominent international scholars in research on teaching. Initiating exchanges among the authors, it then evaluates whether consensus can be reached on the areas of divergence. The book concludes by discussing lessons learned from this endeavor and outlines steps that need to be taken for advancing future work on theorizing teaching. As such, the book is aimed at readers interested in an overview of the theorizing of teaching and key open questions that, if addressed, help to move the field forward.