Written from a cutting-edge perspective, Contextualizing Teaching offers a critical and constructive way of looking at the world and thinking about teaching and learning in schools. The book reviews a wide range of historical, philosophical, and social literature from a postmodern perspective, and the authors provide illustrative examples and case studies from personal experience, which illuminate the themes they discuss.
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This review is from: Contextualizing Teaching: Introduction to Education and Educational Foundations (Paperback)
This is exactly the kind of text future teachers need! For too long educators have been given recipes for teaching...they need to learn to think. Unless we consider the socio-cultural influences on education we will continue to perpetuate the status-quo. The title does give an accurate picture of the contents...the book is an introduction to teaching not a methods book. I feel sorry for the student who just didn't get it!!The book does give history and theory... students just need to look at how the information applies to their own situations.
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This review is from: Contextualizing Teaching: Introduction to Education and Educational Foundations (Paperback)
This book turns teaching on it's head. It leads you through the history and foundation of education in this country and contemporary issues such as standarized tests, cirriculum develpoment, race, class, gender, and the value of teachers and their job. The authors ask you, the reader to question, to explore and to disagree with them. It is not an easy book to read,it is challenging and difficult at times, but worth while.
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For the love of the children, do not read this book!,
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This review is from: Contextualizing Teaching: Introduction to Education and Educational Foundations (Paperback)
I am an education student at Texas A&M University and Contextualizing Teaching is one of the worst books on teaching that I have ever read. This book offers virtually no solid answers on teaching techniques or practical classroom applications, but is full of emotionally charged language that stems more from a desire to advance a political agenda than to educate future teachers. While smugly extolling the virtues of tolerance and acceptance of all ideas, the authors consistently use demeaning and invalidating terms to refer to the ideas of anyone who might think differently from them. If you are looking for a feel-good book of postmodern philosophy, this book is right up your alley. However if you want a practical book that will help you become an effective teacher, keep looking.
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