Freedom and Discipline (RLE Edu K) - 9781138007550

Taylor & Francis

Freedom and Discipline (RLE Edu K)Author(s): Richard Smith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138007550, 978-1138007550\nSynopsis\nQuestions of discipline and order arise wherever formal education is practised, and are particularly acute for those training to teach or in their first school posts. For many years now writing on these topics has tended to depict teaching as the deployment of skills and techniques and competent teachers as those who successfully manage their classes. This approach is criticised by Richard Smith as manipulative and destructive of the kind of pupil-teacher relationship conducive to any but the most trivial sorts of learning.\n\nThus the philosophical issues which the book explores are shown throughout to have their roots in problems associated with established thinking and practice, and the authors ideas have considerable practical relevance. He argues for a thorough reappraisal of the .