Teaching in the knowledge society : education in the age of insecurity / Andy Hargreaves.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hargreaves, Andy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Effective teaching.

Education--Curricula--Standards.

Education.

Competency-based education.

Education--Social aspects.

Education--Curricula.

Physical Description:

x, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press, [2003]

Summary:

We are living in a defining moment, when the world in which teachers do their work is changing profoundly. In his latest book, Hargreaves proposes that we have a one-time chance to reshape the future of teaching and schooling and that we should seize this historic opportunity. Hargreaves sets out what it means to teach in the new knowledge society -- to prepare young people for a world of creativity and flexibility and to protect them against the threats of mounting insecurity. He provides inspiring examples of schools that operate as creative and caring learning communities and shows how years of "soulless standardization" have seriously undermined similar attempts made by many non-affluent schools. Hargreaves takes us beyond the dead-ends of standardization and divisiveness to a future in which all teaching can be a high-skill, creative, life-shaping mission because "the knowledge society requires nothing less." This major commentary on the state of today's teaching profession in a knowledge-driven world is theoretically original and strategically powerful -- a practical, inspiring, and challenging guide to rethinking the work of teaching.

Contents:

1 Teaching for the Knowledge Society: Educating for Ingenuity 9

The Paradoxical Profession 9

Before the Knowledge Society 10

Profiting from the Knowledge Society 14

Developing the Knowledge Society 18

Teaching for the Knowledge Society 23

2 Teaching Beyond the Knowledge Society: Dealing with Insecurity 35

The South Sea Bubble 35

The Knowledge and Information Bubble 37

From Information to Insecurity 40

Fundamentalism or Cosmopolitan Identity 43

Community and Character 49

Cultivating Social Capital 54

Educating for Democracy 55

Teaching beyond the Knowledge Society 57

3 Teaching Despite the Knowledge Society, Part I: The End of Ingenuity / Michael Baker, Martha Foote 72

The Cost of the Knowledge Society 72

Market Fundamentalism 73

Education Off the Rails 74

Standardized Policies 82

Standardized Practices 85

Teachers' Work and Relationships 90

4 Teaching Despite the Knowledge Society, Part II: The Loss of Integrity / Shawn Moore, Dean Fink 96

The End of Ingenuity 99

The Absence of Integrity 115

5 The Knowledge-Society School: An Endangered Entity / Corrie Giles 127

The School as a Learning Community 127

The School as a Caring Community 138

The Pressured Community 143

Learning, Caring, and Surviving 155

6 Beyond Standardization: Professional Learning Communities or Performance-Training Sects? 160

Toward a Learning Profession 160

Futures for Teaching in the Knowledge Society 161

Cultures, Contracts, and Change 162

Culture Regimes 163

Contract Regimes 166

7 The Future of Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Rethinking Improvement, Removing Impoverishment 189

Differential Development 190.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0807743607

0807743593

0335204848

033520483X

OCLC:

50590875