Teachers As Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach With New Commentary by Peter McLaren, Joe L. Kincheloe, and Shirley Steinberg Expanded Edition
Teachers As Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach With New Commentary by Peter McLaren, Joe L. Kincheloe, and Shirley Steinberg Expanded Edition
Challenging teachers to reflect critically on the meaning of the act of teaching as well as the meaning of learning, this work sets out to show why a teacher's success depends on a permanent commitment to learning and training, as part of a continuous appraisal of classroom practice. By observing the curiosity of students and the manner through which students develop strategies for learning, the teacher is helped in discovering doubts, successes and mistakes. The author argues that, when teachers open themselves to ...
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Challenging teachers to reflect critically on the meaning of the act of teaching as well as the meaning of learning, this work sets out to show why a teacher's success depends on a permanent commitment to learning and training, as part of a continuous appraisal of classroom practice. By observing the curiosity of students and the manner through which students develop strategies for learning, the teacher is helped in discovering doubts, successes and mistakes. The author argues that, when teachers open themselves to recognize the different roads that students take in order to learn, they will become involved in a continual reconstruction of their own paths of curiosity, opening the doors to habits of learning that will benefit everyone in the classroom.
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