Becoming and Being a Teacher

Confronting Traditional Norms to Create New Democratic Realities

Paul R Carr editor Paul L Thomas editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Published:12th Jan '13

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This volume unmasks tensions among economic, political, and educational goals in the context of becoming and being a teacher. Chapters frame becoming and being a teacher within commitments to democracy and political literacy while confronting neoliberal assumptions about American society, universal public education, and education reform. A wide variety of teachers and scholars discuss teacher preparation and teaching through evidence-based examinations of complex problems and solutions facing teachers, education policymakers, the public, and students. Teaching is embraced as a political act, and critical subjectivity is endorsed as a rejection of objectivity and traditional paradigms of teaching designed to create a compliant teacher workforce. The book honors and celebrates voice and collective voice, both of which speak to and from the inexorable fact of becoming and being a teacher as one and the same.

ISBN: 9781433116865

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 560g

302 pages

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