Tropics of Teaching : : Productivity, Warfare, and Priesthood / / François Tochon.

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• VerfasserIn: Tochon, François,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Teacher education and research on teaching are surrounded by 'a culture of niceness' which can prevent the expression of problems experienced by teachers and researchers. Based on the premise that deconstruction and demystification are a necessary counterforce to 'shared myths,' François Tochon offers a provocative, original assessment of mass educational concepts and teacher education, leading to a challenge of rethinking pedagogy in general. The author identifies three shaping metaphors: 'productivity' (output standardization; business efficiency), 'warfare' (strategy; expertise), and 'priesthood' (the enlightened subject) ? which he argues stifle individual growth in a classroom context. He then advocates an entirely different approach, which he terms 'a countermethodology of self-reflection, rather than an incursion into the life of the Other.' This approach is achieved, in part, via a technique he calls Action-Poetry: a means of research and educational activism.Tochon's original contribution to educational scholarship ? and his direct challenge to educators themselves ? is the practice of reflective, situated research with classroom observation (his own journal entries are included in the text). Tropics of Teaching is a call to education specialists and to scholars in social and literary studies to rethink current education curricula, policies, and philosophies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Myths in Teacher Education: Towards Reflectivity -- 2. Deconstructing Presence: Behind the Educational Myth -- 3. The Situated Researcher and the Myth of Lived Experience -- 4. Exploring Educational Spaces: Mythic Territories of Experience-Sharing -- 5. A Manifesto for Didaction: Action Poetry as an Empowering Myth -- Afterword: The Myth of Security -- Notes -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index