Elementary School Teachers FROM THE PUBLISHER
For generations student teachers have encountered fundamental tensions between acquiring classroom skills, internalising pedagogical theory and developing their personal higher education. Policy makers have been successfully challenged by the same dilemmas. The memories of many thousands of former teachers perhaps offer a key to conundrums that continue to tease policy makers in the twenty-first century. This book sets out to draw upon the official documentary record, but also upon previously untapped recollections of more than a hundred former classroom teachers.
SYNOPSIS
The authors--former teachers who created an Archive of Teacher Memory at Cambridge U.--write that their interviews with former student teachers yielded not simply an investigation of the technical form of teacher training. Their study, they write, "is also about the ways in which training contributed to the maintenance of enduring images of teachers and teaching. It is about the ways in which training worked towards the transformation of those images. It is about the ways in which teachers and their work were perceived by policy makers and ... by teachers themselves. And it is about the ways in which the student-teacher scheme came to occupy a major place in all these controversial matters during the early decades of the twentieth century." Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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