Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L)
Author | : Ann Berlak |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012-04-27 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781136471049 |
ISBN-13 | : 1136471049 |
Rating | : 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Download or read book Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L) written by Ann Berlak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.