Practice Makes Practice: A Critical Study of Learning to Teach (Suny Series, Teacher Empowerment and School Reform)

“Centering on the lived experiences of student teachers, this book sends out rays of surprising light towards the enterprise of teacher education today. Doing so, it transfigures what is often conceived of as a nesting of commonplaces. “This book will make the life of the educator harder and more tonic; it will urge the reader to confront the contradictory and the tension. But it will also disclose the unexpected. Education will be viewed as if, after all, it can be otherwise.” ― From the Foreword by Maxine Greene Practice Makes Practice explores the contradictory realities of secondary teaching and how these realities are interpreted and acted upon by its central actors: student teachers, teachers, school administrators, and university educators. Drawing on the traditions of critical theory, Practice Makes Practice is distinguished by its ethnographic account of teaching as a struggle for voice and identity amidst a cacophony of past practices, lived experiences, cultural myths, and normative discourses. The struggles of particular student teachers and their professional network are richly portrayed in case studies that trace how individual participants come to make sense of learning to teach, the problems of pedagogy, and structural constraints. For those learning to teach, this text can provide insight into their own struggles. Experienced teachers may gain insight into their own socialization. And researchers and teacher educators may reconsider the structure of their work and how the process of socialization can be studied and interpreted.

Practice Makes Practice: A Critical Study of Learning to Teach (SUNY Series, Teacher Empowerment and School Reform)

Education & Teaching

Deborah P. Britzman

Schools & Teaching

State University of New York P

This book addresses race, class, and gender in education in the United States. It debates the issues of institutionalized power and privilege, and the policies, discourses, and practices that silence powerless groups. At the center of the silence are the most critical and powerful voices of all ― children and adolescents with their relentless desire to be heard and to survive. Weis and Fine go beyond examining policies, discourse, and practices to call up the voices of young people who have been expelled from the centers of their schools and our culture to speak as interpreters of adolescent culture ― among them, lesbian and gay students who have been assaulted in their schools; adolescent women burying their political and personal resistances the moment their bodies “fill out;” young men and women struggling for identities amid the radically transforming conditions of late twentieth-century capitalism; and Native American college students almost wholly excluded from the academic conversation.

Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools (SUNY series, Frontiers in Education)

Politics & Social Sciences

Lois Weiss

Social Sciences

The Virtue of Nonviolence: From Gautama to Gandhi (Constructive Postmodern Thought)

The Virtue of Nonviolence: From Gautama to Gandhi (Suny Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought)

Nicholas F. Gier

History

The Winged Word: A Study in the Technique of Ancient Greek Oral Composition as Seen Principally through Hesiod's Work and Days

Peabody, Berkeley

Literature & Fiction

Letters of Louis D. Brandeis

Business & Money

Brandeis, Louis Dembitz

Economics

xix 248p hardback, a fresh copy, dustjacket in excellent condition, clean pages, firm binding, a well preserved copy, like new

The Middle East Supply Centre

Martin W Wilmington

The Function of Documents in Islamic Law: The Chapters on Sales from Tahawi's Kitab al-Shurut al-Kabir (English and Arabic Edition)

Muhammad al-Tahawi

The Lions of Marash: Personal Experiences with American Near East Relief, 1919-1922

Stanley E. Kerr

Middle East

This is a practical how-to book of meditation techniques. "Meditation," Swami Muktananda explains, "happens through the grace of a Siddha Master; it is our birth-right. All we must do is to shift our focus from the outside to the inner Self." This book is highly recommended for the new meditator and for anyone wishing to deepen their meditation experience.

Meditate: First Edition (SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Swami Muktananda

Psychology & Counseling

Worker and Community focuses on the social and cultural impact of industrialization in Albany, New York during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. More than a local study, it uses Albany as a laboratory in which to examine this important force in social history.The study looks first at the full range of economic actions in which the city’s workers participated between 1850 and 1884―organized strikes, labor riots, public demonstrations, and reform movements. It also examines community influences as workers defined themselves in part through affiliation with a particular ethnic group, church, fraternal society, and political party. The worker’s struggle against prison contract labor, as discussed in Greenberg’s text, reveals acceptance of the free labor tradition along with an emerging interest-group consciousness.

Worker and Community: Response to Industrialization in a Nineteenth-Century American City, Albany, New York, 1850-1884 (SUNY Series in American Social History)

Brian Greenberg

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