Re-Making Teaching: Ideology, Policy and Practice / Edition 1

by Geoffrey Shacklock, John Smyth

Overview

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 Advanced Skills Teachers. It shows how teachers are 'speaking' the changes that are occuring to their work in protracted economically rationalist times.

Arguing against the discourses of economy as the major shaping force, the authors present a persuasive case for focusing on the discourses of teaching itself as the only feasible and adequate basis on which to make sense of teaching. And by presenting a range of voices of practising teachers - allowing them to speak for themselves about the difficulty of trying to translate policy-makers' intentions into words and actions - the book graphically illustrates the devastating long-term consequences for the future of schools of poorly-conceptualised reform policies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415186919
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/17/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

'A refreshing break from the welter of publications locked into the ideology of technocracy.' - Leslie Bash, Anglia Polytechnic University

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