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The Teacher as Expert - A Theoretical and Historical Examination

English · Hardback

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At a time of increasing pressure for teachers to become more professional and more technically competent, this book examines in a critical fashion whether teachers should be considered experts. Written in straightforward and accessible prose, Welker examines the concept of expertise through the ideas of notable educational thinkers in the twentieth century--beginning with E.P. Cubberley and George S. Counts and concluding with a chapter on critical theory and the ideas of Maxine Greene and Henry Giroux. Other chapters examine such thinkers as Willard Waller, Daniel Lortie, Alan Tom, Philip Jackson, and Ivan Illich. Each chapter establishes an historical and ideological context and evaluates how the social character of the expert matches the responsibilities. While the idea of the teacher assuming the role of educational expert is gaining increased credibility in the current reform movement, this book shows that the concept fails to describe the senses of moral and social competence required of the teacher. Also the notion of the expert teacher might stand in the way of teachers forming the type of public partnerships necessary for them to complete their tasks adequately.

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Robert Welker is Assistant Professor of Education at Wittenberg University.


Product details

Authors Robert Welker
Publisher State University of New York Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 14.01.1992
 
EAN 9780791407974
ISBN 978-0-7914-0797-4
No. of pages 183
Dimensions 159 mm x 231 mm x 17 mm
Weight 420 g
Series Suny Series in Logic and Langu
Suny Series, the Philosophy of
Suny Series in Logic and Langu
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology

EDUCATION / Administration / General, Education / Teaching

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