Curriculum Theorizing and Teacher Education: Complicating conjunctions (Theorizing Education)

Synopsis

If teacher education, as a field of study, is to contribute to the revitalization, re-moralization and re-politicization of Education, this book argues that it needs to be alert to questions of teachers’ intellectual and political freedom and to concerns about the legitimacy of what we do in teacher education, in the name of Education. Anne Phelan demonstrates how curriculum theorizing can serve such an educational project by engaging concerns about subjectivity (human agency and action), society, and historical moment, thereby widening the field of insight in teacher education and informing debates about new trajectories for policy and practice. Exploring teacher education through ethical, political, aesthetic vocabularies, drawn from the Humanities, is vital at a time when the dehumanizing influences of performativity, standardization and accountability are evident in education systems across the world, and when we are in danger of losing the things that we most value and are the least measurable - relationships, independent thought, and ethical judgment. Curriculum Theorizing and Teacher Education will be of interest to teacher educators who are practicing, researching, or (re)designing teacher education, as well as policy makers who are curious about new possibilities for framing the "problem" of teacher education at provincial, state and federal levels.

Copyright:

2015

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

192 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781136698644

Related ISBNs:

9780415819633, 9780203387078, 9780815356103

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

09/02/23

Copyrighted By:

A. Phelan with R. Sawa, C. Barlow, D. Hurlock, K. Irvine, G. Rogers, F. Myrick, N. Forghani-Arani and V. Vratulis

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Education

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