Teaching in Tension: International Pedagogies, National Policies, and Teachers' Practices in Tanzania: Pittsburgh Studies in Comparative and International Education, cartea 2
Frances Vavrus, Lesley Bartletten Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2012
This edited volume draws on a long-term collaboration between African and American educational researchers in addressing critical questions regarding how teachers in one African country—Tanzania—conceptualize learner-centered pedagogy and struggle to implement it under challenging material conditions.
One chapter considers how international support for learner-centered pedagogy has infl uenced national policies. Subsequent chapters utilize qualitative data from classroom observations, interviews, and focus group discussions across six Tanzanian secondary schools to examine how such policies shape local practices of professional development, inclusion, gender, and classroom discourse.
In addition, the volume presents an analysis of the benefi ts and challenges of international research between Tanzanian and U. S. scholars, illuminating the complexity of collaboration as it simultaneously presents the outcome of joint research on teachers’ beliefs and practices. The chapters conclude with questions for discussion that can be used in courses on international development, social policy, and teacher education.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789462092228
ISBN-10: 9462092222
Pagini: 222
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Pittsburgh Studies in Comparative and International Education
ISBN-10: 9462092222
Pagini: 222
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Pittsburgh Studies in Comparative and International Education
Recenzii
“This volume, written by a multi-national team of scholar-practitioners, makes an important contribution to our understanding of learner-centered teaching and collaborative educational research. Based on an intensive investigation in Tanzania of a professional development program and teachers’ efforts to conceptualize and implement a globally-promoted pedagogical approach, the authors illustrate—and critically analyze—how these practices are enabled and constrained by cultural lenses, power relations, and material conditions. Importantly, they also examine refl exively how cultural, power, and resource issues shaped their struggle to engage in a collective praxis of qualitative inquiry. The tensions referenced in the title sparked valuable insights, which will be useful to educators, researchers, and policy makers.”—Mark Ginsburg, FHI 360 and Teachers College, Columbia University