Overview
- Endeavors to reclaim teacher education programs as sites for social transformation in conservative times
- Provides an alternative vision of democratic teacher education
- Provides through the authors experiences an understanding of teaching for social justice
Part of the book series: Explorations of Educational Purpose (EXEP, volume 22)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Towards a Critical Politics of Teacher Education
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Teaching Class, Race, Gender and Student Activism
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Contesting the Curriculum
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About this book
We live in dangerous times when educational policies and practices are debated largely in terms of how they fit with the needs of the free market. This volume is a collection of writing by teacher-educators that draws on their unique biographies, experiences and perspectives to denounce these misguided norms. It explores what it means—practically and intellectually—to teach for social justice in conservative times. In a globalised world where the power of capital holds sway, the purposes of social institutions such as universities and schools is being refashioned in ways that are markedly instrumental and technicist in nature. The consequence is that teachers’ work is increasingly constrained by regimes of control such as standardised testing, accountability, transparency, and national curricula. In the meantime, large numbers of students and teachers are disengaging physically, emotionally and intellectually from learning.
The contributors to this edited volume present both a powerful critique of these developments and a counter-hegemonic vision of teacher education founded on the principles and values of social justice, democracy and critical inquiry. Teacher education, they argue, involves a commitment to critical intellectual work that subjects some deeply entrenched assumptions, beliefs, habits, routines and practices to closer scrutiny. The contributing authors expose how ideology and power operate in seemingly blameless, rational ways to perpetuate social hierarchies based on class, gender, sexuality, race and culture.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Voices in Teacher Education
Book Subtitle: Teaching for Social Justice in Conservative Times
Editors: Barry Down, John Smyth
Series Title: Explorations of Educational Purpose
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3974-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3973-4Published: 29 April 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9748-2Published: 09 May 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-3974-1Published: 28 April 2012
Series ISSN: 1875-4449
Series E-ISSN: 1875-4457
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 308
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Sociology of Education