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Author Gale, Trevor, 1956-

Title Engaging teachers : towards a radical democratic agenda for schooling / Trevor Gale and Kathleen Densmore
Published Maidenhead, Berkshire England ; Philadelphia, Pa. : Open University, 2003
Maidenhead, Berkshire England ; Philadelphia, Pa. : McGraw-Hill : Open University, 2003

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Description vii, 135 pages ; 24 cm
3 1/2 in
Contents Foreword / Simon Marginson -- 1. Introduction: to a politics of engagement -- 2. Markets: an increasingly visible hand -- 3. Policy: the authoritative allocation of values -- 4. Leadership: taking a radical democratic stance -- 5. Professionalism: a framework for just social relations -- 6. Community: reconnecting school and society
Summary "'Engaging Teachers' makes a deliberate attempt to reclaim the education discourse captured by new right politics and connect it with a radical democratic agenda for schooling. On its agenda are education markets, policy, leadership, professionalism, and communities. Engaging with these is conceived on at least two levels. First, as an invitation to teachers to become involved in reconstructing schooling for socially just purposes and in democratic ways. From this perspective, the politics of engagement is not simply a matter of acquiescence or resistance but is informed by a commitment to generate alternatives: teachers, parents and students making things happen rather than having things done to them. Also signalled is an intent to work collectively, exploring and acting on common interests and across uncommon ground. Second, the book also celebrates teachers engaging in these reconstructive efforts in attractive and meaningful ways. The attraction is decisions about schooling made by those they affect as well as decisions that are meaningful because they engage the interests of all." -- Publisher description
Analysis Choice
Notes vii, 135 p
Includes bibliographical references (p. [118]-128) and index
Foreword / Simon Marginson -- 1. Introduction: to a politics of engagement -- 2. Markets: an increasingly visible hand -- 3. Policy: the authoritative allocation of values -- 4. Leadership: taking a radical democratic stance -- 5. Professionalism: a framework for just social relations -- 6. Community: reconnecting school and society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [118]-128) and index
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In English
Subject Postmodernism and education.
Education and society
Privatization in education.
Critical pedagogy.
Author Densmore, Kathleen Mary.
ebrary, Inc.
LC no. 2002035468
ISBN 0335210279
0335210260 paperback
Other Titles Towards a radical democratic agenda for schooling