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“A wise but lonely wanderer”: How professors avoid getting bored—and boring
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
new directions for teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1536-0768
pISSN - 0271-0633
DOI - 10.1002/tl.37219862808
Subject(s) - boredom , psychology , personality psychology , work (physics) , mathematics education , pedagogy , social psychology , engineering , personality , mechanical engineering
Good teachers are not bored with their work. They find ways—through the subjects they teach, the courses they teach, thestudents they teach, of their own enlivening personalities—to avoid boredom.