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Just schooling : explorations in the cultural politics of teaching

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posted on 2000-01-01, 00:00 authored by Trevor Gale, K Densmore
How are classroom relations influenced by the language that teachers use and the stories they tell about their students? Just Schooling is an exercise in the cultural politics of teaching. It invites teachers and interested others to rethink what they know about social justice and to rework how they engage in the practices of teaching (what they say and do), particularly in relation to how these influence the lives of students. Informed by a recognitive view of social justice, Just Schooling analyses the various discourses and ideologies mobilized in classrooms that implicitly and explicitly determine what is understood by (i) the nature and centrality of language, (ii) the purposes and meaning of education, and (iii) the diversity of students, particularly with respect to their gender, race and social class but also their learning dis/abilities. Throughout, the authors argue for a democratization of classroom relations, beginning with students' and teachers' personal lives and connecting these with wider contexts, as a way of addressing the advantages and disadvantages traditionally reproduced by schooling.

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Pagination

1 - 175

Publisher

Open University Press

Place of publication

Buckingham, England

ISBN-13

9780335203222

ISBN-10

0335203221

Language

eng

Publication classification

A1.1 Books - authored - research

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