Learning from Experience

Miriam Ben-Peretz is Professor of Education and former Dean of the School of Education at the University of Haifa, Israel, as well as President of Tel-Hai College, Israel. She is the author of The Teacher-Curriculum Encounter: Freeing Teachers from the Tyranny of Texts, also published by SUNY Press.

• List of Tables and Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Memory of Events and the Practice of Teaching 2. The Content of Teachers' Memories 3. The Impact of Teaching Situations on Teachers' Memories 4. Scripts in Teachers' Memories 5. What Do the Stories Tell Us? Learning about Teachers and Teaching 6. Stories, Stories: The Tales of Teachers' Memories 7. Experience, Professional Knowledge, and Memory of Events 8. Learning from Experience: The Teachers' View 9. Context-Specific Memories of Teachers and Learning from Experience: Some Conclusions 10. Teachers' Memories: Implications for Teacher Education and School Administration Appendix. Design of the Study on Memory of Professional Events References Index

"I was intrigued by the author's bringing important research outside of education (memory research and script theory) to bear on the experience of teachers, which I think is important to the field of education." — Mary E. Diez, Alverno College