Showing papers on "Deskilling published in 1980"
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that curriculum changes which include content packaging and pedagogic change are an aspect of the deskilling of teachers and contain within themselves new forms of social control, and also the way in which such changes affect social relationships with pupils and legitimate disparate educational outcomes which come to depend more on pupil characteristics than teachers' invervention.
Abstract: It is argued that curriculum changes which include content packaging and pedagogic change are an aspect of the deskilling of teachers and contain within themselves new forms of social control. The operation of such schemes in one school is examined to consider this, and also the way in which such changes affect social relationships with pupils and legitimate disparate educational outcomes which come to depend more on pupil characteristics than teachers’ invervention. Teacher and pupil responses to such schemes are examined. Given teachers’ contradictory class location within the social relations of production, it is argued that the increase of such curricular schemes will increase the number of proletarianised teachers which will affect relationships within schools.
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TL;DR: The reorganization of the design activity around computer-based systems will have profound effects upon the design community, and there is still time to reverse this historical tendency and opt for human centred and enhancing systems which make full use of the ‘tacit knowledge’ of the designer.
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