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Author : Stephen J. Ball
Release : 1999-03-01
Genre : Educational change
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 229/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Educational Reform and the Struggle for the Soul of the Teacher! by : Stephen J. Ball
Download or read book Educational Reform and the Struggle for the Soul of the Teacher! written by Stephen J. Ball. This book was released on 1999-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth M. Zeichner
Release : 2017-10-10
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 002/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Struggle for the Soul of Teacher Education by : Kenneth M. Zeichner
Download or read book The Struggle for the Soul of Teacher Education written by Kenneth M. Zeichner. This book was released on 2017-10-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Struggle for the Soul of Teacher Education is a much-needed exploration of the unprecedented current controversies and debates over teacher education and professionalism. Set within the context of neo-liberal education reforms across the globe, the book explores how the current struggles over teaching and teacher education in the US came about, as well as reflections on where we should head in the future. Zeichner provides specific examples of work that moves teacher education toward greater congruency between ideals and practices, while outlining the basis for a new form of community-based teacher education, where universities and other program providers, local communities, school districts, and teacher unions share responsibility for the preparation of teachers. Ultimately, Zeichner problematizes an uncritical shift to more practice and clinical experience, and discusses the enduring problems of clinical teacher education that need to be addressed for this shift to be educative. Readers are sure to gain insight on transforming teacher education so it more adequately addresses the need to prepare teachers capable of providing a high-quality education with access to a rich and broad curriculum, and culturally and community responsive teaching for everyone’s children.
Author : Peter W. Cookson
Release : 1995-08-01
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 995/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis School Choice by : Peter W. Cookson
Download or read book School Choice written by Peter W. Cookson. This book was released on 1995-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The school choice reform movement believes parents should have a choice of where they send their children to school. In this book the author, an educational sociologist, discusses the practice and politics of school choice objectively and comprehensively.
Author : Thomas S. Popkewitz
Release : 2017-06-26
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 031/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Teacher Education and Teaching as Struggling for the Soul by : Thomas S. Popkewitz
Download or read book Teacher Education and Teaching as Struggling for the Soul written by Thomas S. Popkewitz. This book was released on 2017-06-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging conventional ways of thinking about school reforms and teacher education, this book analyses how the "knowledge systems" which organize how teachers’ observe, supervise, and evaluate children produces norms that have the effect of excluding children who are poor and of color. Building on Struggling for the Soul (1998), his original study of the day-to-day life of new teachers in the Teach for America program, Popkewitz delves deeper into how the teaching and learning practices of urban and rural schools. Applying an ethnographic focus to how difference and divisions are produced to exclude despite efforts to include, he explores the complexities of educational change and raises important questions about the politics of schooling, knowledge and power. This book provides an original way of thinking about ethnography through a critical post-foundational approach. Conceptually focusing the ethnography of "the system of reason" that organizes teacher practices, the analysis offers a critical lens to understand the contemporary politics of school reform, the limits of teacher research, and suggests why current teacher and teacher education reforms may conserve the very conditions required for change. Beyond its relevance to U.S. schools, the conceptual and methodological resources of the book have relevance internationally, especially given the global important of education responding to cultural and social diversity through teacher and teacher education reforms.
Author : Steven Ashby
Release : 2016-11-04
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 489/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Fight for the Soul of Public Education by : Steven Ashby
Download or read book A Fight for the Soul of Public Education written by Steven Ashby. This book was released on 2016-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In reaction to the changes imposed on public schools across the country in the name of "education reform," the Chicago Teachers Union redefined its traditional role and waged a multidimensional fight that produced a community-wide school strike and transformed the scope of collective bargaining into arenas that few labor relations experts thought possible. Using interviews, first-person accounts, participant observation, union documents, and media reports, Steven K. Ashby and Robert Bruno tell the story of the 2012 strike that shut down the Chicago school system for seven days.A Fight for the Soul of Public Education takes into account two overlapping, parallel, and equally important stories. One is a grassroots story of worker activism told from the perspective of rank-and-file union members and their community supporters. Ashby and Bruno provide a detailed account of how the strike became an international cause when other teachers unions had largely surrendered to corporate-driven education reform. The second story describes the role of state and national politics in imposing educational governance changes on public schools and draconian limitations on union bargaining rights. It includes a detailed account of the actual bargaining process revealing the mundane and the transcendental strategies of both school board and union representatives.
