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Teaching and Its Predicaments

Name: Teaching and Its Predicaments
Author: Nicholas Burbules
ISBN: 9780813328645

by Nicholas Burbules, David T. Hansen

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Overview

Teaching is a complex and challenging endeavor. Teachers are continually faced with difficult choices in which competing values are set in tension with one another. The interests of all students, and of other groups and constituencies, can rarely be served at the same time. Different educational goals, each desirable in and of itself, often place incompatible demands on teachers, especially in light of the limited resources and time available to most of them. Of course, teaching does have its satisfactions and fulfillments, but increasingly those rewards must be sought in the context of challenges that reflect the competing expectations society places upon educators.These essays tackle important aspects of the complex, often conflicted contexts of teaching. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of teaching, offering candid analysis of the difficulties and trade-offs inherent in teaching practice, while suggesting ways to productively address a given conflict. Together, the chapters speak honestly to the realities and challenges of teaching, without downplaying the ideals that draw teachers into education in the first place.

Synopsis

These essays take on important aspects of the complex, often conflicted contexts of teaching. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of teaching, offering candid analysis of the difficulties and trade-offs inherent in teaching practice and suggesting ways of addressing these problems. The book speaks honestly to the realities and challenges of teaching, without downplaying the ideals that bring teachers into education to begin with.

About the Author, Nicholas Burbules

Nicholas C. Burbules is professor of educational policy studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and currently serves as editor of Educational Theory. David T. Hansen is associate professor in the College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago.