Enabling praxis : : challenges for education / / Stephen Kemmis and Tracey J. Smith, editors.

• Superior document: Pedagogy, Education and Praxis ; 1
• TeilnehmendeR: Kemmis, Stephen,; Smith, Tracey J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2008]; 2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Pedagogy, Education and Praxis ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

In a range of professions, professional practice today is under threat. It is endangered, for example, by pressures of bureaucratic control, commodification, marketization, and the standardisation of practice in some professions. In these times, there is a need for deeper understandings of professional practice and how it develops through professional careers. Enabling Praxis: Challenges for education explores these questions in the context of initial and continuing professional education of teachers. It presents a theory of the development of praxis—morally committed action oriented by tradition—to show the ways praxis is enabled and constrained by the cultural-discursive, material and social-political conditions under which professional practice occurs. It introduces the notion of ‘practice architectures’ to show how particular conditions for practice shape the possibilities of praxis. The way these processes work is illustrated by detailed exploration of a number of cases of praxis development in a variety of educational settings, at a variety of levels—in teacher education for schools and for vocational education and training, in the continuing professional education of teachers, in educational administration, and in informal, community-based education for sustainability initiatives. The book provides conceptual resources that permit deeper analysis of the character, conduct and consequences of professional practice. It concludes with challenges for education, and for initial and continuing teacher education, suggesting that the contemporary threats to education as a professional practice call for revitalisation of the profession, professional bodies and the intellectual traditions that orient and guide educational practice.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Stephen Kemmis and Tracey J. Smith -- Praxis and praxis development / Stephen Kemmis and Tracey J. Smith -- Personal Praxis / Stephen Kemmis and Tracey J. Smith -- Situating praxis in practice / Stephen Kemmis and Peter Grootenboer -- Fostering a praxis stance in pre-service teacher education / Tracey J. Smith -- Developing praxis and reflective practice in pre-service teacher education / Christine Edwards-Groves and Deana Gray -- Finding praxis? / Helen Russell and Peter Grootenboer -- The praxis-oriented self / Christine Edwards-Groves -- A case study of teacher learning / Ian Hardy -- Leadership praxis in the academic field / Jane Wilkinson -- Freedom for praxis / Roslin Brennan Kemmis -- Education and sustainability / William Adlong -- Reflections on ‘Enabling Praxis’ / Jan Ax , Petra Ponte , Matts Mattson and Karin Rönnerman -- Conclusions and challenges / Stephen Kemmis and Tracey J. Smith -- Epilogue / Stephen Kemmis -- Contributors / Stephen Kemmis and Tracey J. Smith -- Index / Stephen Kemmis and Tracey J. Smith.