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Author Berlak, Ann.

Title Dilemmas of schooling : teaching and social change / by Ann & Harold Berlak
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 299 pages)
Series Routledge library editions. Education ; v. 165
Routledge library editions. Education ; v. 165.
Contents pt. 1. Controversies and context -- pt. 2. The schools -- pt. 3. Towards a theory and language of schooling -- pt. 4. Interpretations of the schools -- pt. 5. Engaging in critical inquiry
Summary 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 s
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-292) and index
Notes English
Subject Education, Elementary -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Teaching -- Great Britain
Social change -- Great Britain
EDUCATION -- Elementary.
Education, Elementary -- Social aspects
Social change
Teaching
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Berlak, Harold.
ISBN 9781136471056
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9781280662096
9786613639028
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