Dilemmas of schooling : teaching and social change / Ann & Harold Berlak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berlak, Ann.

Contributor:

Berlak, Harold.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Education ; v. 165.

Routledge library editions. Education ; v. 165

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Elementary--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Education, Elementary.

Teaching--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 s

Contents:

Front Cover; Dilemmas of Schooling; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Part One: Controversies and Context; I. Public issues and schooling controversies; II. Theoretical context; III. A brief history and overview of the book; Notes to Part One; Part Two: The Schools; IV. Port Primary; V. Scenes from the other schools; Notes to Part Two; Part Three: Towards a Theory and Language of Schooling; VI. Towards a dialectical account of teacher action; VII. The dilemma language; Notes to Part Three; Part Four: Interpretations of the Schools; VIII. Patterns of resolution

IX. Patterns of resolution and social change: an explorationNotes to Part Four; Part Five: Engaging in Critical Inquiry; X. Critical inquiry: teachers, schooling professionals and citizens as critical inquirers; XI. Educational researchers as critical inquirers; Notes to Part Five; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index

Notes:

First published in 1981.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-136-47104-9

1-280-66209-3

9786613639028

1-136-47105-7

0-203-12883-4

9780203128831

OCLC:

798533051