Raging against the Mass-Schooling Machine / by Andrew Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Andrew, Author.

Series:

Transgressions, Cultural Studies and Education , 2214-9740 ; 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVIII, 112 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Awakenings: The (Un)Blurring of Then & Now

The Teaching Urge: And Seeking Amnesia

Linocut Prints and Exile(s): A Story of High School

Images Together

Postscripts; On Guilt, Shame, & Remorse: The Library Caper

Inter-Text Notes

Primary School

Postscript

Pre-Service Teaching: And Pedagogical Perversity

(Anti-Social) Socialisation

Teacher Education

Who am I? And What ‘Stuff’ am I Made of?

The Presence of Absence

Teacher Construction

The Pragmatic Radical: And ‘Making’ Amends…

Making Meaning; Inter-Text Notes

The Core Self: Suring / Shoring Up the Self

Critical Survival

Ethical Activism; Making Stories & Making Sense

Addressing My Selves

Departures & Migrations: New Beginnings

Reading Myself ‘Against the Grain’

Pragmatic Radicalism

Beyond Nightmares & Dreaming

And Finally

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789463008518

9463008519

OCLC:

967858470