Overview

Dramatic, profound and far-reaching changes are being visited on schools worldwide that have their genesis a long way from the classroom but which impact heavily on teachers and their work. Most of this reform has been achieved with little or no involvement from teachers themselves. This book sets out to survey the contemporary context of what is happening to the work of teaching, and to show how teachers are ""speaking"" the changes that are occuring to their work in protracted economically rationalist times. Arguing against the discourses of economy as the major shaping force, the authors present a case for focusing on the discourses of teaching itself as the only feasible and adequate basis on which to make sense of teaching. By presenting a range of voices of practising teachers - allowing them to speak for themselves about the difficulty of trying to translate policy-makers' intentions into words and actions - the book graphically illustrates the devastating long-term consequences for the future of schools of poorly-conceptualized reform policies.

Full Product Details

9780415186919

Table of Contents

Reviews

Smyth an Shacklock's book, Re-Making Teaching: Ideology, Policy, and Practice, is an excellent book, and we encourage anyone involved in or concerned with changes in the field of education to read it...it offers the reader several crucial insights regarding efforts to reform teaching.. -International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice, Vol. 3, No. 4. Re-Making Teaching is a book worthy of a close reading. It is thoughtful, lucid, and creative illumination of the way in which teaching is being conceived in the Western nations of the world. As such, it provides much useful information to those educators who are struggling to make school a place where both teachers and their students might be able to create meaningful lives for themselves and work to make their cultures more human and just.. -International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice, Vol. 3, No. 4

Smyth an Shacklock's book, Re-Making Teaching: Ideology, Policy, and Practice, is an excellent book, and we encourage anyone involved in or concerned with changes in the field of education to read it...it offers the reader several crucial insights regarding efforts to reform teaching.. -International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice, Vol. 3, No. 4. Re-Making Teaching is a book worthy of a close reading. It is thoughtful, lucid, and creative illumination of the way in which teaching is being conceived in the Western nations of the world. As such, it provides much useful information to those educators who are struggling to make school a place where both teachers and their students might be able to create meaningful lives for themselves and work to make their cultures more human and just.. -International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice, Vol. 3, No. 4

Smyth an Shacklock's book, Re-Making Teaching: Ideology, Policy, and Practice, is an excellent book, and we encourage anyone involved in or concerned with changes in the field of education to read it...it offers the reader several crucial insights regarding efforts to reform teaching.. <br>-International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice, Vol. 3, No. 4. <br> Re-Making Teaching is a book worthy of a close reading. It is thoughtful, lucid, and creative illumination of the way in which teaching is being conceived in the Western nations of the world. As such, it provides much useful information to those educators who are struggling to make school a place where both teachers and their students might be able to create meaningful lives for themselves and work to make their cultures more human and just.. <br>-International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice, Vol. 3, No. 4 <br>

Author Information

John Smyth is Professor of Teacher Education and Director of the Flinders Institute for the Study of Teaching, where Geoffrey Shacklock is a Research Associate.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available