Beschreibung:
John Smyth is Professor of Teacher Education and Director of the Flinders Institute for the Study of Teaching, where Geoffrey Shacklock is a Research Associate.
Educational reform has nowhere been more concerned with "putting education to work" than in Australia, where national policies seek to measure educational systems in terms of international competitiveness, labor market flexibility, productivity and skills formation, to name a few. This "economic rationalist" experiment, evidenced increasingly worldwide, has developed largely from policy-making and budget-management initiatives, with little or no involvement among teachers themselves. The authors of this volume present the testimony of practicing teachers, who speak for themselves about the difficulty of translating management directives into classroom programs.
1 Preliminaries 2 Scoping the wider landscape 3 Teaching under (re-)construction 4 Teachers doing their 'economic' work 5 Managing the 'preferred' teacher 6 Interrupting the dominant view 7 Letting the 'preferred' teacher speak 1548 Conclusion Rejecting economic palimpsests of teachers' work