| Re-Making Teaching: Ideology, Policy and Practice Contributor(s): Shacklock, Geoffrey (Author), Smyth, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415186919 ISBN-13: 9780415186919 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: Educational reform has nowhere been more concerned with "putting education to work" than in Australia, where national policies seek to measure educational systems in terms of international competitiveness, labor market flexibility, productivity and skills formation, to name a few. This "economic rationalist" experiment, evidenced increasingly worldwide, has developed largely from policy-making and budget-management initiatives, with little or no involvement among teachers themselves. The authors of this volume present the testimony of practicing teachers, who speak for themselves about the difficulty of translating management directives into classroom programs. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Educational Policy & Reform |
| Dewey: 371.1 |
| LCCN: 98-15142 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6" W x 9" (0.76 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Australian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |