Teaching in the Knowledge Society Education in the Age of Insecurity

Name: Teaching in the Knowledge Society Education in the Age of Insecurity
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ISBN: 9780807743591

ISBN-10: 0807743593

ISBN-13: 9780807743591

Edition: 2003

Authors: Andy Hargreaves

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Teaching for the Knowledge Society: Educating for Ingenuity


The Paradoxical Profession


Before the Knowledge Society


Profiting from the Knowledge Society


Developing the Knowledge Society


Teaching for the Knowledge Society



Teaching Beyond the Knowledge Society: Dealing with Insecurity


The South Sea Bubble


The Knowledge and Information Bubble


From Information to Insecurity


Fundamentalism or Cosmopolitan Identity


Community and Character


Cultivating Social Capital


Educating for Democracy


Teaching beyond the Knowledge Society



Teaching Despite the Knowledge Society, Part I: The End of Ingenuity



The Cost of the Knowledge Society


Market Fundamentalism


Education Off the Rails


Standardized Policies


Standardized Practices


Teachers' Work and Relationships



Teaching Despite the Knowledge Society, Part II: The Loss of Integrity



Introduction


The End of Ingenuity


The Absence of Integrity



The Knowledge-Society School: An Endangered Entity



The School as a Learning Community


The School as a Caring Community


The Pressured Community


Learning, Caring, and Surviving



Beyond Standardization: Professional Learning Communities or Performance-Training Sects?


Toward a Learning Profession


Futures for Teaching in the Knowledge Society


Cultures, Contracts, and Change


Culture Regimes


Contract Regimes



The Future of Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Rethinking Improvement, Removing Impoverishment


Differential Development


Conclusion


Appendix


Index


About the Author