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Raging against the Mass-Schooling Machine

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Authors:
  1. Andrew Miller

    1. Flinders University, Australia

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  • Raging against the Mass Schooling Machine is a compelling ‘autoethnographic’ account of one beginning teacher’s struggle to transform his future teaching identity by unpacking the bruising encounters that shaped him as a student
  • To resist the mind-numbing orthodoxies of the mass-schooling machine, beginning teachers need to interrogate the theories and practices that have shaped them as teachers, question the lies and illusions that dominate the profession, and learn to ‘teach against the grain’ using a strategic blend of pragmatic and radical approaches
  • There are few if any books written from the beginning teacher’s point-of-view about the challenge of entering such a highly regulated and habituated profession: in fact, there are few books about beginning teaching by beginning teachers full stop

Part of the book series: Transgressions (TRANS, volume 50)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Awakenings

    • Andrew Miller
    Pages 1-6

  3. The Teaching Urge

    • Andrew Miller
    Pages 7-16

  4. Linocut Prints and Exile(s)

    • Andrew Miller
    Pages 17-38

  5. On Guilt, Shame, & Remorse

    • Andrew Miller
    Pages 39-54

  6. Pre-Service Teaching

    • Andrew Miller
    Pages 55-66

  7. Who am I?

    • Andrew Miller
    Pages 67-76

  8. The Pragmatic Radical

    • Andrew Miller
    Pages 77-96

  9. Departures & Migrations

    • Andrew Miller
    Pages 97-106

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 107-111
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The biggest danger for beginning teachers is to teach as they were taught. In order to create teaching identities capable of resisting the mind-numbing orthodoxies of the mass-schooling machine, beginning teachers need to interrogate the theories and practices that have shaped them as teachers. Raging against the Mass-Schooling Machine is a compelling autoethnographic account of one beginning teacher’s struggle to transform his future teaching identity by unpacking the bruising encounters that shaped him as a student. This is a must-read book for all teachers wishing to ‘teach against the grain.’ The journey from student to teacher involves almost two decades of junior, primary, secondary, and tertiary education. Few of us critique this journey to see what emotional legacies and taken-for-granted assumptions we carry from one identity to the other. If we remain unconscious of the social and cultural discourses and practices that have shaped and defined us as students and teachers,we may unwittingly reproduce the inequalities, prejudices, and traumas we experienced or observed while growing up, or resort to transmission teaching and authoritarian control because this is the formula of schooling most of us know. Empowering education relies on teachers resisting these toxic scripts and becoming agents of change.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Flinders University, Australia

    Andrew Miller

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Raging against the Mass-Schooling Machine

  • Authors: Andrew Miller

  • Series Title: Transgressions

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-851-8

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-851-8Published: 27 December 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9732

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9740

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 112

  • Topics: Education, general

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