Title: The Good Teacher
First published: July 21, 2004
Description: This is a book that challenges thinking about teaching, and critiques the currently 'fashionable' discourses.  It offers a new set of approaches to initial and continuing teacher education that re-emphasises the importance of theory through reference to key sociological and psychological works.Contents include: 1. Being A Teacher - influences and calls 2. Being  A 'Good' Teacher -  Dominant  Discourses 3. 'Made in Heaven' - Charismatic Subjects4. The Training Discourse - Competent Craftspersons 5. The 'Effective' Teacher - traditionalism, progressivism and pragmatism 6. The Appeal of Reason  -  Reflective Practitioners 7. Beyond Rationalism - practice, desire and reflexivity Afterword: Resistance (is not futile...)
Subjects: Education, Nonfiction, Sociology