Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L)
Teaching and Social Change
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Educational Theory, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Reference
| Author: | Ann Berlak, Harold Berlak | ISBN: | 9781136471049 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | April 27, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Ann Berlak, Harold Berlak |
| ISBN: | 9781136471049 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | April 27, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
This study illuminates how the everyday activity of teachers raises profound economic, cultural, ethical, political and research issues, and provides a new and fruitful way of examining the practice of teaching. The first part of the book offers a detailed description of sensitively recorded school situations, arising from work carried out in a number of British primary schools. From the analysis of their research the authors constructed a theoretical perspective for looking at schooling in the form of sixteen ‘dilemmas’; the second half of the book is concerned with this perspective, and shows how the dilemmas constitute a language for looking at everyday schooling and relating it to more general political, social and cultural issues. The book thus spans the gap in educational thinking between work with a firm empirical base and specifically theoretical studies.
This study illuminates how the everyday activity of teachers raises profound economic, cultural, ethical, political and research issues, and provides a new and fruitful way of examining the practice of teaching. The first part of the book offers a detailed description of sensitively recorded school situations, arising from work carried out in a number of British primary schools. From the analysis of their research the authors constructed a theoretical perspective for looking at schooling in the form of sixteen ‘dilemmas’; the second half of the book is concerned with this perspective, and shows how the dilemmas constitute a language for looking at everyday schooling and relating it to more general political, social and cultural issues. The book thus spans the gap in educational thinking between work with a firm empirical base and specifically theoretical studies.
