Becoming and Being a Teacher : Confronting Traditional Norms to Create New Democratic Realities
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Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781433116865
- ISBN-10: 1433116863
- Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
- Publish Date: January 2013
- Page Count: 302
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