Learning to Teach: A Critical Approach to Field Experiences

Learning to Teach A Critical Approach to Field Experiences This text is designed to assist preservice and inservice teachers in creating a critical and reflective dialogue with themselves, their assigned classroom cultures, and the larger school environment. It engages readers in a series of classroom and school-based activities, observations, and exercises that can be used in any teacher education course with a field component. Different from other field experience guides, this text aims to disrupt traditional conceptions of teacher education and field experiences-by emphasizing the problematic nature and dynamics of public schooling, and encouraging readers to seek a greater awareness of their own attitudes toward and connections with these educational processes.Learning to Teach: A Critical Approach to the Field Experience, Second Edition: *dramatically reconceptualizes the field experience by asking preservice and inservice teachers to be active and critical researchers of classroom practices and processes; *provides a coherent framework for analyzing both structural and cultural aspects of schooling; *provides specific exercises to help preservice and inservice teachers evaluate and understand the intersections of race, class, gender, and culture in”real life”� school settings; and *grounds the observations of everyday school life within critical, feminist, and poststructuralist discourses. New in the Second Edition: A new section,”�No Child Left Untested,”� has been added to help preservice teachers explore the implications of a very changed post-September 11world in which xenophobia, violence, patriotism, citizenship, and democracy have taken on new meanings. The introduction to the book as a whole, the section introductions, the retained activities in existing sections, and the references have been throughly updated.Additional ISBNs9780805854701, 9781410617323, 9781135602536, 9781135602581Learning to Teach: A Critical Approach to Field Experiences 2nd Edition is written by Natalie G. Adams; Christine Mary Shea; Delores D. Liston; Bryan Deever and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Learning to Teach are 9781135602574, 1135602573 and the print ISBNs are 9781138136205, 1138136204. Additional ISBNs include 9780805854701, 9781410617323, 9781135602536, 9781135602581.