Dilemmas of Schooling: Teaching and Social Change Contributor(s): Berlak, Ann (Author), Berlak, Harold (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415752825 ISBN-13: 9780415752824 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Elementary - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Reference |
Dewey: 372.241 |
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education |
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Publisher Description: 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. |