Situated Teaching: Personal, Cultural, and Contextual Early Childhood Schooling
Blank, Jolyn Margaret
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Description
Title
Situated Teaching: Personal, Cultural, and Contextual Early Childhood Schooling
Author(s)
Blank, Jolyn Margaret
Issue Date
2006
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Bresler, Liora
Department of Study
Education
Discipline
Education
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Education, Early Childhood
Language
eng
Abstract
These findings suggest the following implications for teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and reformers. With growing interest in teacher collaboration within already over-burdened systems, understanding school identity is becoming more important to educators. Understanding schools as places where teachers learn to teach can prevent indoctrination. Greater awareness of situated notions about what constitutes good teaching makes implicit values more visible so that they may be examined and reformed. I argue that a search for essential characteristics of good teaching over-simplifies the complexity of teaching. Broadening notions of teaching to include work outside the classroom such as talk about teaching, peer observation, and joint problem setting and solving would enlighten teacher self-evaluation.
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