Learning to Teach: A Critical Approach to Field Experiences

Adams, Natalie G. (Author)/ Shea, Christine Mary (Author)/ Liston, Delores D. (Author)/ Deever, Bryan (Author)

ISBN 10: 0805854703 / ISBN 13: 9780805854701

Published by Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc, 2005

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2nd edition. 162 pages. 10.50x8.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learning to Teach: A Critical Approach to Field Experiences
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805854703
• ISBN 13: 9780805854701
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.56 kilograms

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Synopsis

This text is designed to assist preservice and inservice teachers in creating a critical and reflective dialogue with themselves, their assigned classroom cultures, and the larger school environment. It engages readers in a series of classroom and school-based activities, observations, and exercises that can be used in any teacher education course with a field component. Different from other field experience guides, this text aims to disrupt traditional conceptions of teacher education and field experiences--by emphasizing the problematic nature and dynamics of public schooling, and encouraging readers to seek a greater awareness of their own attitudes toward and connections with these educational processes.Learning to Teach: A Critical Approach to the Field Experience, Second Edition:

*dramatically reconceptualizes the field experience by asking preservice and inservice teachers to be active and critical researchers of classroom practices and processes;

*provides a coherent framework for analyzing both structural and cultural aspects of schooling;

*provides specific exercises to help preservice and inservice teachers evaluate and understand the intersections of race, class, gender, and culture in "real life" school settings; and

*grounds the observations of everyday school life within critical, feminist, and poststructuralist discourses.

New in the Second Edition: A new section,"No Child Left Untested," has been added to help preservice teachers explore the implications of a very changed post-September 11world in which xenophobia, violence, patriotism, citizenship, and democracy have taken on new meanings. The introduction to the book as a whole, the section introductions, the retained activities in existing sections, and the references have been throughly updated.

About the Author

Natalie G. Adams, Christine Mary Shea, Delores D. Liston, Bryan Deever