Conference paper
Developing critically reflective teachers in 'wacky' times
ATEA
Making teaching public: Reforms in teacher education. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference, Australian Teacher Education Conference (Fremantle, Western Australia., 05/07/2006–08/07/2006)
2006
Abstract
This paper is about the possibility of reconceptualising and reorganising teacher education. It begins by alluding to the current obsession with testing and standardisation as a means of improving education. A central argument here is that the New Right (neo-liberal and neo-conservative) has manufactured a crisis in education which has had profound consequences for public schools and those who inhabit them, especially in disadvantaged communities. Against this backdrop, the paper considers: (i) the impact of narrowly conceived efforts of government to control teacher's work through teacher-proof curricula, test driven threats and punitive forms of accountability; (ii) the usefulness of the notion of the critical reflective teacher as an antidote to these draconian policies and practices; and (iii) the implications for teacher education programmes and ongoing teacher development. The paper sets out to tackle two key questions: (i) what kind of teachers do we need in these changing times? and (ii) how do we go about producing them?
Details
- Title
- Developing critically reflective teachers in 'wacky' times
- Authors/Creators
- B. Down (Author/Creator)
- Conference
- Making teaching public: Reforms in teacher education. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference, Australian Teacher Education Conference (Fremantle, Western Australia., 05/07/2006–08/07/2006)
- Publisher
- ATEA
- Identifiers
- 991005543252107891
- Copyright
- © Australian Teacher Education Association
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
- Note
- Gray, J. (Ed) (2006). Making teaching public: Reforms in teacher education. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference, Australian Teacher Education Association, 5-8 July, Fremantle, Western Australia, pp 84 - 95.
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