Full Description
There are many expert teachers working in the global South and we can learn a great deal from them. Neither of these claims should be surprising, yet to date there has been almost no research conducted on expert teachers working in Southern contexts. Instead, the huge sums of money invested in attempting to improve teacher quality in the South have frequently been directed towards introducing exogenous practices or interventions that may be culturally inappropriate, practically infeasible and ultimately unsustainable - often failing as a result. In this pioneering book, Jason Anderson provides an authoritative overview of the practices, cognition and professionalism of expert teachers working in low-income contexts. By drawing upon both systematic reviews of teacher expertise and effectiveness research, and his own fieldwork in India, he argues that without an understanding of expert teachers working in all contexts worldwide, we cannot truly understand expertise itself.
Contents
List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The construct of teacher expertise; 3. The expert teacher prototype; 4. Effective teaching in low-income contexts; 5. Researching teacher expertise in the global South; 6. A portrait of teacher expertise; 7. Exploring the quintain: expert Indian secondary teachers of English; 8. Diversity in expertise: Where is there difference and why?; 9. Teacher expertise in the global South: understanding practices, contexts and constraints; 10. Updating the expert teacher prototype: a differentiated framework; 11. Valuing and building on Southern expertise; 12. Concluding reflections; References; Index.
