Entrance Slip: Max van Manen on the tact of teaching
Quote 1: "To receive recognition literally means to be known. Someone who recognizes
me thereby acknowledges my existence, my very being. This is not the same as
fleetingly noticing people who one passes in a busy street."
In terms of 'tact in teaching', this quote makes a lot of sense. The importance here is that in order for tact to exist in teaching, the teacher must recognize that the student really does exist and that they are a being that has feeling, learns, and teaches others too. This, as opposed to how a teacher could look at a student as 'fleeting' from class to class, and year to year.
Quote 2: "A reflective relation takes into consideration the critical, perspectival, and cultural nature of
scientific theories, as well as the implications of the psychological (cognitive) and
the social (ideological) genesis of knowledge for the living reality of pedagogical
relations."
In terms of 'tact in teaching', this quote provides a good set of perspectives to incorporate in the way you teach your students. With reflection, a teacher can consider the perspective that they took on teaching a certain lesson, and more importantly the perspective(s) they missed and to improve on including more perspectives when teaching lessons in the future. This way the material will get to more students because they will be able to relate.
Quote 3: "Whereas theory “thinks” the world, practice “grasps” the world — it grasps the
world pathically (van Manen, 1997; 1999)."
In terms of 'tact in teaching', this quote makes an important distinction between theory and practice whereby the real importance in practice is to grasp the world and know the world; getting your students learn to think in this large-scale manner will put theory to practice. It is importance for tact so that students can take the role of interpreting the world for themselves rather than it being spoon fed to them.
me thereby acknowledges my existence, my very being. This is not the same as
fleetingly noticing people who one passes in a busy street."
In terms of 'tact in teaching', this quote makes a lot of sense. The importance here is that in order for tact to exist in teaching, the teacher must recognize that the student really does exist and that they are a being that has feeling, learns, and teaches others too. This, as opposed to how a teacher could look at a student as 'fleeting' from class to class, and year to year.
Quote 2: "A reflective relation takes into consideration the critical, perspectival, and cultural nature of
scientific theories, as well as the implications of the psychological (cognitive) and
the social (ideological) genesis of knowledge for the living reality of pedagogical
relations."
In terms of 'tact in teaching', this quote provides a good set of perspectives to incorporate in the way you teach your students. With reflection, a teacher can consider the perspective that they took on teaching a certain lesson, and more importantly the perspective(s) they missed and to improve on including more perspectives when teaching lessons in the future. This way the material will get to more students because they will be able to relate.
Quote 3: "Whereas theory “thinks” the world, practice “grasps” the world — it grasps the
world pathically (van Manen, 1997; 1999)."
In terms of 'tact in teaching', this quote makes an important distinction between theory and practice whereby the real importance in practice is to grasp the world and know the world; getting your students learn to think in this large-scale manner will put theory to practice. It is importance for tact so that students can take the role of interpreting the world for themselves rather than it being spoon fed to them.
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