Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L)

<p>This study illuminates how the everyday activity of teachers raises profound economic cultural ethical political and research issues and provides a new and fruitful way of examining the practice of teaching. The first part of the book offers a detailed description of sensitively recorded school situations arising from work carried out in a number of British primary schools. From the analysis of their research the authors constructed a theoretical perspective for looking at schooling in the form of sixteen ‘dilemmas’; the second half of the book is concerned with this perspective and shows how the dilemmas constitute a language for looking at everyday schooling and relating it to more general political social and cultural issues. The book thus spans the gap in educational thinking between work with a firm empirical base and specifically theoretical studies. </p>