Why read The Wisdom of Practice?

Book cover of The Wisdom of Practice: Essays on Teaching, Learning, and Learning to Teach

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What do teachers need to know in order to teach well? How important is the depth and quality of teachers' content knowledge as a critical aspect of their ability to teach? How can teachers best be educated, and how can we assess their accomplishments as teachers? In what ways is…

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1 author picked The Wisdom of Practice as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Howard Gardner

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Among professors of education of our time, Lee Shulman stands out as a thinker, a speaker, and the adviser and role model of scores of excellent researchers and practitioners.

Shulman is primarily a writer of powerful essays. The educational world is fortunate that this volume collects his best thinking and writing. I wish that every teacher and every researcher would read and absorb Shulman’s vision of good education.

From Howard's list on educating for the future.