Description: Many controversies attend the topic of culture and teaching, including: is there such a thing as a common culture? What culture does the student bring, and what is the role of the teacher? This work seeks to facilitate an examination of the reader's beliefs and acquaint them with those of others.
Review Quotes:
"Culture and Teaching significantly advances our understanding of the twin dimensions of reflective practice, one focused on developing practical theory and craft, the other on contextual conditions affecting teaching practice. [The] primary concern is to delineate the social conditions of schooling so that prospective and practicing teachers understand education as an instrument of social reconstruction and justice."
--Walter J. Ullrich
St. Cloud State University
"Culture and Teaching is intriguing and important. It integrates general issues of culture and education with particular classroom (and related) settings, and connects these to larger traditions....The vignettes will generate discussion....The authors have taken pains to present both illuminating and contestable situations, which amply illustrate the various schools of thought on these questions."
--Landon E. Beyer
Indiana University