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ERIC Number: EJ449453
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
Teachers' Work and the Politics of Reflection.
Smyth, John
American Educational Research Journal, v29 n2 p267-300 Sum 1992
The current interest in reflective approaches to teacher education is examined, arguing that the move toward more reflective orientations toward teaching and teacher education must be viewed in institutional contexts and structural adjustments in Western capitalist systems. A more socially, culturally, and politically reflective approach to teaching is proposed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Elementary School Teachers, Higher Education, Ideology, Interpersonal Competence, Politics of Education, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Western Civilization
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Reflection Process; Reflective Teaching
Note: Paper presented at a conference at the University of Bath (Bath, England, March 1991).