Teacher Education and Teaching as Struggling for the Soul: A Critical Ethnography

ISBN-13: 9781138205857 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 158 str.

Thomas S. Popkewitz

Opis

Challenging conventional ways of thinking about school reforms and teacher education, this book analyses how the "knowledge systems" which organize how teachers' observe, supervise, and evaluate children produces norms that have the effect of excluding children who are poor and of color. Building on Struggling for the Soul (1998), his original study of the day-to-day life of new teachers in the Teach for America program, Popkewitz delves deeper into how the teaching and learning practices of urban and rural schools. Applying an ethnographic focus to how difference and divisions are produced to exclude despite efforts to include, he explores the complexities of educational change and raises important questions about the politics of schooling, knowledge and power. This book provides an original way of thinking about ethnography through a critical post-foundational approach. Conceptually focusing the ethnography of "the system of reason" that organizes teacher practices, the analysis offers a critical lens to understand the contemporary politics of school reform, the limits of teacher research, and suggests why current teacher and teacher education reforms may conserve the very conditions required for change. Beyond its relevance to U.S. schools, the conceptual and methodological resources of the book have relevance internationally, especially given the global important of education responding to cultural and social diversity through teacher and teacher education reforms.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Teacher Education as Making Different Kinds of People: Urban and Rural Education 2. The Practices of Teaching/Teacher Education and Struggling for the Soul 3. The Soul as the Achievement of Teaching: The Cultural Theses of the Urban and Rural Child 4. The Alchemies of Pedagogy: From Ethical Registers to Psychological Registers 5. The Wisdom of Teacher Practice as a Normalizing Technology 6. The Alchemy of School Subjects: Governing of Conduct and Making Difference 7. Struggling for the Soul, Inscribing Difference, and Teacher/Teacher Education Reforms 8. Afterwards: Methodology and Writing a Critical Ethnographic Narrative 

O autorze

Thomas S. Popkewitz is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.