Becoming and Being a Teacher
Confronting Traditional Norms to Create New Democratic Realities
©2013
Textbook
XVIII,
302 Pages
Series:
Critical Studies in Democracy and Political Literacy, Volume 2
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- XVIII, 302
- Publication Year
- 2013
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433116865
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781433116506
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- political literacy democracy critical subjectivity
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2013. XVIII, 302 pp., num. ill.
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