| Becoming and Being a Teacher: Confronting Traditional Norms to Create New Democratic Realities Contributor(s): Carr, Paul R. (Editor), Thomas, Paul L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1433116502 ISBN-13: 9781433116506 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $51.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Research - Political Science - Social Science |
| Dewey: 370.711 |
| LCCN: 2012034861 |
| Series: Critical Studies in Democracy and Political Literacy |
| Physical Information: 302 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
