Dr Leon Benade (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
From Technicians to Teachers provides theoretical and practical reasons for suggesting that widespread, international curriculum reform of the post-1990 period need not deprofessionalise teaching. The widely held deprofessionalisation thesis is both compelling and fatalistic, leading to a despairing sense that teachers are either no more than technicians, or that they can be reprofessionalised through definitions of 'effective teachers' promoted by the reforms. However, there are many teachers who do not see their work in either of these ways.
The book is structured around an...
From Technicians to Teachers provides theoretical and practical reasons for suggesting that widespread, international curriculum reform of the post...
