Inside Teaching: How Classroom Life Undermines Reform
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Inside Teaching: How Classroom Life Undermines Reform
Abstract/Description
Reform the schools, improve teaching: these battle cries of American education have been echoing for twenty years. So why does teaching change so little? Arguing that too many would-be reformers know nothing about the conflicting demands of teaching, Mary Kennedy takes us into the controlled commotion of the classroom, revealing how painstakingly teachers plan their lessons, and how many different ways things go awry. Teachers try simultaneously to keep track of materials, time, students, and ideas. In their effort to hold all of these things together, they can inadvertently quash students' enthusiasm and miss valuable teachable moments. Kennedy argues that pedagogical reform proposals that do not acknowledge all of the things teachers need to do are bound to fail. If reformers want students to learn, they must address all of the problems teachers face, not just those that interest them.
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Date
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
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Published Text
Scholarship genre
Textbook
Open access/full-text available
No
Peer reviewed
No
ISBN
978-0-674-03951-3
Citation
Kennedy, M. M. (2009). Inside Teaching: How Classroom Life Undermines Reform. Harvard University Press.
Num pages
288
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