Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L): Teaching and Social Change (Routledge Library Editions: Education) - Hardcover

Berlak, Ann; Berlak, Harold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415501199 ISBN 13: 9780415501194

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415501199
• ISBN 13: 9780415501194
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312