RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Teachers and Teaching: On Teaching, Knowledge, and "Middle Ground"
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 226
OP 240
DO 10.17763/haer.59.2.l341028l2v675t46
VO 59
IS 2
A1 Howard, Jessica
YR 1989
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/59/2/226.abstract
AB Teachers often feel poised between dynamic forces in the classroom as they struggle to meet the needs of both individual students and the group, to promote children's self-knowledge as well as their knowledge of the curriculum. Here Jessica Howard, a teacher at the Prospect School,a private elementary school in rural Vermont, re-examines this dialectic. She describes how she,as a teacher, creates the "middle ground," a time and place that pulls together the disparate elements of classroom life, where children can make new and richer sense of themselves and the world.