Experts as Effective Teachers

It is an important aspect of cultural life that accomplished experts pass on their knowledge and experience to future generations. By doing so, they help students to excel. The professional knowledge experts command mostly lies in a field different from education. Therefore, experts often face difficulties when they teach. Experts as Effective Teachers: Understanding the Relevance of Cognition, Emotion, and Relation in Education wishes to inspire experts to reflect upon their practice as teachers from a cognitive, emotional and relational point of view and to derive from this reflection new perspectives for their own teaching methods. Thus, they may be enabled to match the professionalism of their already existing expertise in the field with the professional level of their teaching.

A great book that every expert who teaches should read. As an active performer and violin teacher, Fabian Rieser explores the aspects of pursuing excellence in both disciplines, and gives directions for a balanced interplay between them. Although the book focuses on the arts, the basic principles can also be useful in other fields of expertise (such as scientific academia etc)., This book is a brilliant exploration of how a mature artist passes on his or her knowledge and experience to students especially at the university level. I recommend it to all artists who are teaching in a setting along side traditionally trained teachers., Teaching at the tertiary level clearly can have a critical impact on society, yet the experts hired to profess their expertise are precisely those given the least training in how to accomplish their job effectively. A careful study of this book would provide a huge step towards correcting this problem. It should be read by all those brought in from the professional world to share their expertise with students, no matter at what level they are teaching.

Fabian Rieser, born in Germany, studied violin performance and doctoral studies in music education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He records for the German label CPO. Also a dedicated teacher, his students have won numerous national awards. He lives in Vienna with his charming wife, Nicola.