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The Tact Of Teaching: An Improvised Quality Making The Wisdom Class

Posted on:2008-09-19Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360212491422Subject:Comparative Education
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Tact is one of the practical wisdom when people affiliate with others, so it is a positive body action, which has the two dimensions of character excellence and intellectual excellence. Excellence of character not only does good to others but also to oneself. Meanwhile, intellectual excellence under the practical logic does not indicate "careful reflection", but emphasize on " acting properly at the proper moment, in the proper place, to proper people". The tact, an improvised action that emphasizes the indeterminacy and emergency of practice, is induced in surprise. So the intellectual excellence is "an improvised action corresponding to situational development in surprise." The improvised action is constituted by the theory, the rule and the project which is the inside clue of the body action. The tact has the characteristic of novelty, efficiency, chanciness and twinkling. The tact takes place as an intuitive judgment and it is an action involved physically and spiritually, which is related with observation, suggestion, selection and association, and influenced by emotion and willing.The tact of teaching is one of the tact taking place in class, which is regarded as the excellence of teaching in the view of teaching from the aesthetic perspective. Its excellence of character shows as anisomerous "You and Me" meeting between the teacher and the student in teaching, and pays attention to happiness of teaching. Its intellectual excellence reflects in the practice of teaching that resumed the practicing manner. And the teaching act as a practical wisdom attaching full importance to human beings. The situation and occasion become the key words, constructing meaning in the particular situation, so the teaching is from "is "in the technical teaching practice to continually developing "May be " wisdom teaching practice. Time is introduced to practice again, the shrivel time line under the metaphor of picture puzzles extended to the continuous under the metaphor of picture drawing, momentary sections of teaching situation is loaded into powerful time flow, give prominence to the concept of "occasion". Under this idea of the situation and time, teaching has the nature of narration, the teacher should be good at catching the wonder subtly, and promote it further.Wisdom class is like the Jazz Playing, 'Teaching tactfully" is the external characteristic of wisdom class. Teaching tactfully means prepared improvisation quality, that is to say ,it not only describes a event, but accords with hypotheticalstatement "if……,that……". Constructing class means changing from a technologicalsimple thinking manner to a complex thinking manner, challenging specific objective, effective teaching procedure, anticipative causality consequence, the emerging teaching objective, the complex causality and returning to teaching event offering the improvised context.Teaching tactfully is a rounded practical process, including the flexible time and life-style space, which often becomes the turning point to changing the teaching appearance before the action. And preparation is for better creation. Different from the script teaching plan, the vision-style design leaves creative space without final answers, which brings the enthusiasm to the subject teaching and student. So it displays the characteristics of multithreading, full view, image, and big step. In the action, the teacher is involved totally. Teaching tactfully is a body action that displayed by movement and expression, humor, language. Furthermore the wisdom class stimulates the intrinsic paradox, in which teaching tactfully is act. So it is important to develop the teaching rhythms, establish energetic rules, form one's teaching manner, switch teaching method. The reflection after the action is a process that mix the inner and external effort depending on the individual and collective power, the teacher learning community offers the resource and support that cultivate teacher's practical wisdom, and the external power is efficiency by integrity of oneself.
Keywords/Search Tags:tact, the tact of teaching, practical wisdom, wisdom class
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