Lesson Plans : The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher (Critical Issues in American Education)

Everitt, Judson G.

Rutgers University Press（2017/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 222 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780813587592
• DDC分類 370.711

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Winner of the 2019-20 Distinguished Book Award - Midwest Sociological Society

In Lesson Plans, Judson G. Everitt takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training, and reveals the complexities and dilemmas teacher candidates confront as they learn how to perform a job that many people assume anybody can do. Using rich qualitative data, Everitt analyzes how people make sense of their prospective jobs as teachers, and how their introduction to this profession is shaped by the institutionalized rules and practices of higher education, K-12 education, and gender. Trained to constantly adapt to various contingencies that routinely arise in schools and classrooms, teacher candidates learn that they must continually try to reconcile the competing expectations of their jobs to meet students' needs in an era of accountability. Lesson Plans reveals how institutions shape the ways we produce teachers, and how new teachers make sense of the multiple and complicated demands they face in their efforts to educate students.   

Contents

Introduction: Social Institutions and the Professional
Socialization of New Teachers 1
1 Compulsory Education and Constructivist Pedagogy 22
2 The Challenges and Assumptions of Adapting
to All Students 48
3 Accountability and Bureaucracy 72
4 Dilemmas of Coverage and Control 95
5 The Injunction to Adapt, Autonomy, and Diversity
of Practice 118
6 The Demands of Becoming a Teacher 142
Appendix: Site, Context, and My Role As an Ethnographer 165
Acknowledgments 179
Notes 181
Bibliography 197
Index 207