1st Edition
Re-Making Teaching Ideology, Policy and Practice
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Dramatic, profound and far-reaching changes are being visited on schools worldwide that have their genesis a long way from the classroom but which impact heavily on teachers and their work. Most of this reform has been achieved with little or no involvement of teachers themselves. This book sets out to survey the contemporary context of what is happening to the work of teaching, and focuses on... Read more
1 Preliminaries 2 Scoping the wider landscape 3 Teaching under (re-)construction 4 Teachers doing their ‘economic’ work 5 Managing the ‘preferred’ teacher 6 Interrupting the dominant view 7 Letting the ‘preferred’ teacher speak 1548 Conclusion Rejecting economic palimpsests of teachers’ work
Biography
John Smyth is Professor of Teacher Education and Director of the Flinders Institute for the Study of Teaching, where Geoffrey Shacklock is a Research Associate.
'A refreshing break from the welter of publications locked into the ideology of technocracy.' - Leslie Bash, Anglia Polytechnic University
