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Education Reform and the Concept of Good Teaching

Derek Gottlieb
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Arne Duncan
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Charter School Debate
Charter Schools
Cut Scores
Dreyfus's Account
Dreyfus's View
Dreyfus’s Account
Dreyfus’s View
Duncan's Rhetoric
Duncan's Speeches
Duncan’s Rhetoric
Duncan’s Speeches
educational policy analysis
Epistemology
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Generalization Proceeds
Guiding Teacher Practice
Ludwig Wittgenstein
National Council On Teacher Quality
NCLB Era
No Child Left Behind
Nontest Measures
Ontological Measurement
Ordinary Language Philosophy
phenomenology of learning
philosophical critique of education reform
Practical Dealings
Practical Holism
Race to the Top
Rationalist Assumption
rule-following in pedagogy
School Accountability
Schwab's Notion
Schwab's View
Schwab’s Notion
Schwab’s View
Single Specific Action
skill development theory
Student Achievement Data
Subject Specific Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Surface Conclusions
Teacher Evaluation
teacher evaluation methods
Teacher Evaluation Protocols
Teacher Quality
Teacher Training
Transparent Data System
Underperforming Teachers

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138776241
  • Weight: 498g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Jul 2014
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

In an effort to address the problems confronting the American education system, the Obama administration has issued structural and systematic reforms such as Race to the Top. These initiatives introduce new statistics and accountability systems to gauge what constitutes "good" teaching, both from an administrative standpoint and the perspective of teacher training programs. This volume offers a direct critique of this approach, concluding that it does not respond adequately to the issues of education reform but rather raises new problems and actively stymies progress.

The author argues that at the heart of the confusion lies a misguided and rationalistic view of teaching and learning. He draws on the philosophical strategies of Ludwig Wittgenstein to break down the guiding assumptions of Race to the Top, allowing both the positive and the negative aspects of the policies to be heard. The author then proposes a different view of teaching and learning which considers how to effectively address the problems Race to the Top seeks to confront.
About Derek Gottlieb
Derek Gottlieb is a research fellow in the English department of the University of Basel in Switzerland. He holds PhDs in English Literature and in Education. He has published on teacher training and educational evaluation; his next book will explore theories of Shakespearean comedy.

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