1st Edition

Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L) Teaching and Social Change

By Ann Berlak, Harold Berlak Copyright 1981
4 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

This study illuminates how the everyday activity of teachers raises profound economic, cultural, ethical, political and research issues, and provides a new and fruitful way of examining the practice of teaching. The first part of the book offers a detailed description of sensitively recorded school situations, arising from work carried out in a number of British primary schools. From the analysis... Read more

Part 1: Controversies and Context. 1. Public Issues and Schooling Controversies. 2. Theoretical Context. 3. A Brief History and Overview of the Book. Notes to Part 1. Part 2: The Schools. 4. Port Primary. 5. Scenes From the Other Schools. Notes to Part 2. Part 3: Towards A Theory and Language of Schooling 6. Towards A Dialectical Account of Teacher Action. 7. The Dilemma Language. Notes to Part 3. Part 4: Interpretations of the Schools. 8. Patterns of Resolution. 9. Patterns of Resolution and Social Change: An Exploration. Notes to Part 4. Part 5: Engaging in Critical Inquiry. 10. Critical Inquiry: Teachers, Schooling Professionals and Citizens as Critical Inquirers. 11. Educational Researchers as Critical Inquirers. Notes to Part 5. Bibliography. Name and Subject Indices.

Biography

Ann Berlak