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Week 1 Monday

Reading Prompts

 

 

Britzman, D. (2003). Practice Makes Practice: A Critical Study of Learning to Teach, Revised Edition, State University of New York Press, Albany. Chapter 1

 

What is your understanding/recollection of what teachers do?/What did teacher work look like to you as a student?

How does the aim expressed in following quote from the chapter sit with your choice to teach?

“How can student teachers come to take up discursive practices that both challenge the taken-for-granted passivity presently dominating learning and teaching, and fashion activitist and participatory styles of knowing and being?” (pg 34)

What are your existing perceptions of knowledge, power and identity and how they relate to teaching?

 

Shann, S. (1987). School Portrait. Penguin: Australia. Chapter 5: Paul, pp 94–110.

 

What does this narrative tell you about this school, the role of teachers and students?

How does this narrative relate to your experience of school?

Kohn, A. (1999). First Lesson… Unlearn how we learned: By A Look At . . . Getting Back to Basics. Washington Post, October 1999. http://www.alfiekohn.org/article/look–

getting–back–basics/

 

How do you feel about accepted practice/experience in your learning being challenged as inappropriate or ineffective?

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