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Essays on Pedagogy (Paperback)
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Essays on Pedagogy (Paperback)
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Seven authoritative contributions to the emerging field of pedagogy
and to comparative, cultural and policy studies in education. A
must for those who want to do more than merely comply with received
versions of 'best practice'. Pedagogy is at last gaining the
attention in English-speaking countries which it has long enjoyed
elsewhere. But is it the right kind of attention? Do we still tend
to equate pedagogy with teaching technique and little more? Now
that governments, too, have become interested in it, is pedagogy a
proper matter for public policy and official prescription? In
Essays on Pedagogy, Robin Alexander brings together some of his
most powerful recent writing, drawing on research undertaken in
Britain and other countries, to illustrate his view that to engage
properly with pedagogy we need to apply cultural, historical and
international perspectives, as well as evidence on how children
most effectively learn and teachers most productively teach. The
book includes chapters on a number of themes, expertly woven
together: the politicisation of school and classroom life and the
trend towards a pedagogy of compliance; the benefits and hazards of
international comparison; pedagogical dichotomies old and new, and
how to avoid them; how education and pedagogy might respond to a
world in peril; the rare and special chemistry of the personal and
the professional which produces outstanding teaching; the scope and
character of pedagogy itself, as a field of enquiry and action. For
those who see teachers as thinking professionals, rather than as
technicians who merely comply with received views of 'best
practice', this book will open minds while maintaining a practical
focus. For student teachers it will provide a framework for their
development. Its strong and consistent international perspective
will be of interest to educational comparativists, but is also an
essential response to globalisation and the predicaments now facing
humanity as a whole.
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