Learning to Teach

<p>This text is designed to assist preservice and inservice teachers in creating a critical and reflective dialogue with themselves their assigned classroom cultures and the larger school environment. It engages readers in a series of classroom and school-based activities observations and exercises that can be used in any teacher education course with a field component. Different from other field experience guides this text aims to disrupt traditional conceptions of teacher education and field experiences--by emphasizing the problematic nature and dynamics of public schooling and encouraging readers to seek a greater awareness of their own attitudes toward and connections with these educational processes.<i>Learning to Teach: A Critical Approach to the Field Experience Second Edition: </i> <p/>*dramatically reconceptualizes the field experience by asking preservice and inservice teachers to be active and critical researchers of classroom practices and processes; <p/>*provides a coherent framework for analyzing both structural and cultural aspects of schooling; <p/>*provides specific exercises to help preservice and inservice teachers evaluate and understand the intersections of race class gender and culture in real life school settings; and <p/>*grounds the observations of everyday school life within critical feminist and poststructuralist discourses. <p/><b>New in the Second Edition: </b> A new sectionNo Child Left Untested has been added to help preservice teachers explore the implications of a very changed post-September 11world in which xenophobia violence patriotism citizenship and democracy have taken on new meanings. The introduction to the book as a whole the section introductions the retained activities in existing sections and the references have been throughly updated.</p>