Changing Patterns of Power: Social Regulation and Teacher Education Reform (SUNY Series in Teacher Preparation and Development) - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0791414485 ISBN 13 : 9780791414484

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1993

Synopsis

The reform of teacher education has been a focal point of state action in industrial countries since the early 1980s. Given this convergence of educational and governmental activity, the studies presented here are a significant departure from conventional discourse on reform, because they explore the ways that social regulation and political power operate through the processes of educational reform.

This book considers the reform of teacher education to be an integral part of the larger system of social regulation that takes place in the arena of schooling. Reforms in teacher education involve complex sets of interactions among and within social institutions. These interactions help shape power relations and patterns of social regulation that operate through state, university, and school interactions. Nevertheless, the patterns that give direction and value to teacher education are not easily discerned in public discussions of educational change. Instead, many of the most important regulatory aspects of teacher education reform are partly obscured by a public discourse that focuses attention on formal responses to socioeconomic events, and that tends to divert critical attention away from the power that is exercised-and the interests that are served-during reform.

This volume presents studies of reform in Australia, Finland, Iceland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Although these countries differ in their political and social histories, rates and levels of industrialization, and patterns of educational practice, there is a striking commonality in both the strategies that are employed to reform teacher education, and in the nature of social regulation that is a concomitant of reform.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Thomas S. Popkewitz is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has published extensively and is the editor of Changing Patterns of Power: Social Regulation and Teacher Education Reform, also published by SUNY Press, as well as The Formation of the School Subject-Matter: The Struggle for Creating an American Institution.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791414485
• ISBN 13: 9780791414484
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 406
• Éditeur: Popkewitz Thomas S.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne