Showing papers on "Transformative learning published in 1985"
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01 Jul 1985
TL;DR: In this article, the nature of educational reform and the role of the transformative intellectual in the twenty-first century is discussed. But the focus of the paper is on the curriculum, not the curriculum itself.
Abstract: Introduction: Beyond the Melting Pot--Schooling in the Twenty-first Century Rethinking the Nature of Educational Reform Teaching and the Role of the Transformative Intellectual The Literacy Crisis: A Critique and Alternative Reproduction and Resistance in Radical Theories of Schooling Radical Pedagogy and the Legacy of Marxist Discourse Curriculum Theory, Power, and Cultural Politics The Universities and the Question of Political Correctness Are We Having Fun Yet? Computers and the Future of Work and Play Multiculturalism under Siege in the Reagan/Bush Era Education and the Crisis in Public Philosophy Schooling and the Future: Revitalizing Public Education Selected Bibliography Index
315 citations
01 Jan 1985
TL;DR: The authors examines the ideological and material forces that have contributed to the proletarianization of teacher work; that is, the tendency to reduce teachers to the status of specialized technicians within the school bureaucracy, whose function then becomes one of managing and implementing curricula programs rather than developing or critically appropriating curricula to fit specific pedagogical concerns.
Abstract: This chapter examines the ideological and material forces that have contributed to the proletarianization of teacher work; that is, the tendency to reduce teachers to the status of specialized technicians within the school bureaucracy, whose function then becomes one of managing and implementing curricula programs rather than developing or critically appropriating curricula to fit specific pedagogical concerns. There is a need to defend schools as institutions essential to maintaining and developing a critical democracy and also to defending teachers as transformative intellectuals who combine scholarly reflection and practice in the service of educating students to be thoughtful, active citizens. By viewing teachers as intellectuals, we can illuminate the important idea that all human activity involves some form of thinking. Viewing teachers as intellectuals also provides a strong theoretical critique of technocratic and instrumental ideologies underlying an educational theory that separates the conceptualization, planning, and design of curricula from the processes of implementation and execution.
303 citations
TL;DR: In this article, four distinct, but not necessarily contradictory, accounts of the way in which science comes to be seen as a masculine subject are examined, and it is argued that schools could play a transformative, rather than a reproductive, role in the formation of gender identities.
Abstract: The masculinity of science can be studied as a topic in the cultural reproduction of gender. In this paper four distinct, but not necessarily contradictory, accounts of the way in which science comes to be seen as a masculine subject are examined. It is argued that schools could play a transformative, rather than a reproductive, role in the formation of gender identities.
231 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, an in-depth analysis of transforming leadership is presented, focusing on six elements: crisis, the school district's mission and vision, an ad hoc structure, a participative process, and a skillful change agent in the role of superintendent.
Abstract: This paper is an in-depth analysis of transforming leadership - its definition and its basic features. In a study of a suburban school district, six elements were found to be important in the transformative process: a crisis, the school district's mission and vision, an ad hoc structure, a participative process, and a skillful change agent in the role of superintendent.
172 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors follow a common path, the way of challenging ideologies that preserve oppressive structures and of sharing in transformative struggles for justice, in a way similar to our own.
Abstract: “Liberation movements and hermeneutical approaches follow a common path, the way of challenging ideologies that preserve oppressive structures and of sharing in transformative struggles for justice...
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