1st Edition
Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L) Teaching and Social Change
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.
Part 1: Controversies and Context. 1. Public Issues and Schooling Controversies. 2. Theoretical Context. 3. A Brief History and Overview of the Book. Notes to Part 1. Part 2: The Schools. 4. Port Primary. 5. Scenes From the Other Schools. Notes to Part 2. Part 3: Towards A Theory and Language of Schooling 6. Towards A Dialectical Account of Teacher Action. 7. The Dilemma Language. Notes to Part 3. Part 4: Interpretations of the Schools. 8. Patterns of Resolution. 9. Patterns of Resolution and Social Change: An Exploration. Notes to Part 4. Part 5: Engaging in Critical Inquiry. 10. Critical Inquiry: Teachers, Schooling Professionals and Citizens as Critical Inquirers. 11. Educational Researchers as Critical Inquirers. Notes to Part 5. Bibliography. Name and Subject Indices.