Practice Makes Practice: A Critical Study of Learning to Teach (Suny Series, Teacher Empowerment and School Reform) [Paperback]

Deborah P. Britzman (Author), Maxine Greene (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 9, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0791458504 | ISBN-13: 978-0791458501 | Edition: Revised

"A revised edition of the classic text, this volume explores the problem of what learning to teach means for those involved."

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Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

"While the research on teacher education continues to proliferate, Practice Makes Practice remains the discipline's indispensable classic text. Drawing upon critical ethnography, this new edition of this best-selling book asks the question, what does learning to teach do and mean to newcomers and to those who surround them? Deborah P. Britzman writes poignantly of the struggle for significance and the contradictory realities of secondary teaching. She offers a theory of difficulty in learning and explores why the blaming of individuals is so prevalent in education. The completely revised introduction presents a refined and further developed theoretical framework and analysis that Britzman provided in the original edition, discussing why we might return to a study of teaching and learning. Also included in this updated edition, is an insightful "hidden chapter" that comments on the methodology of the study and some of the dilemmas the author continues to face as her own thinking develops around the issues of representing teaching and learning for those just entering the profession." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

"Deborah P. Britzman is Professor of Education, Social and Political Thought, and Women's Studies at York University in Toronto. She is the author of After-Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning and Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning, both published by SUNY Press." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 306 pages
• Publisher: State University of New York Press; Revised edition (April 9, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791458504
• ISBN-13: 978-0791458501
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #857,483 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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