Learning to Teach - 9781138136205

Taylor & Francis

Learning to TeachA Critical Approach to Field Experiences\nAuthor(s): Natalie G. Adams, Christine Mary Shea, Delores D. Liston, Bryan Deever\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138136205, 978-1138136205\nSynopsis\nThis text is designed to assist preservice and inservice teachers in creating a critical and reflective dialogue with themselves, their assigned classroom cultures, and the larger school environment. It engages readers in a series of classroom and school-based activities, observations, and exercises that can be used in any teacher education course with a field component. Different from other field experience guides, this text aims to disrupt traditional conceptions of teacher education and field experiences--by emphasizing the problematic nature and dynamics of public schooling, and encouraging readers to seek a greater awareness of their own attitudes toward and connections with these educational [url] to.