Social Theory for Teacher Education Research
Subtitle: Beyond the Technical-Rational
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781350086395
Subjects: Teachers, training of
Description: "Traditionally, teacher education research theory and practice have had a technical-rational focus on productions of knowledge, skills, performance and accountability. Such a focus serves to (re)produce current educational systems instead of noticing and critiquing the wider modes of domination that permeate schools and school systems. In Social Theory for Teacher Education Research, Kathleen Nolan, Jennifer Tupper and the contributors make arguments for drawing on social theories to inform research in teacher education - research that moves the agenda beyond technical-rational concerns toward building a critically reflexive stance for noticing and unpacking the socio-political contexts of schooling."