
Practice Makes Practice
Deborah P. Britzman(Author)
State University of New York Press
2nd Edition
Published on 9. April 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
303 pages
978-0-7914-5850-1 (ISBN)
Description
This revised edition of the classic text explores the complexity of what learning to teach means.
While the research on teacher education continues to proliferate, Practice Makes Practice remains the discipline's indispensable classic text. Drawing upon critical ethnography, this new edition of this best-selling book asks the question, what does learning to teach do and mean to newcomers and to those who surround them? Deborah P. Britzman writes poignantly of the struggle for significance and the contradictory realities of secondary teaching. She offers a theory of difficulty in learning and explores why the blaming of individuals is so prevalent in education.
The completely revised introduction presents a refined and further developed theoretical framework and analysis, discussing why we might return to a study of teaching and learning. Also included in this updated edition is an insightful "hidden chapter" that comments on the methodology of the study and some of the dilemmas the author continues to face as her own thinking develops around the issues of representing teaching and learning for those just entering the profession.
While the research on teacher education continues to proliferate, Practice Makes Practice remains the discipline's indispensable classic text. Drawing upon critical ethnography, this new edition of this best-selling book asks the question, what does learning to teach do and mean to newcomers and to those who surround them? Deborah P. Britzman writes poignantly of the struggle for significance and the contradictory realities of secondary teaching. She offers a theory of difficulty in learning and explores why the blaming of individuals is so prevalent in education.
The completely revised introduction presents a refined and further developed theoretical framework and analysis, discussing why we might return to a study of teaching and learning. Also included in this updated edition is an insightful "hidden chapter" that comments on the methodology of the study and some of the dilemmas the author continues to face as her own thinking develops around the issues of representing teaching and learning for those just entering the profession.
Reviews / Votes
The completely revised introduction presents a refined and further developed theoretical framework and analysis, discussing why we might return to a study of teaching and learning. Also included in this updated edition is an insightful "hidden chapter" that comments on the methodology of the study and some of the dilemmas the author continues to face as her own thinking develops around the issues of representing teaching and learning for those just entering the profession.More details
Series
Edition
Revised Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
496 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-5850-1 (9780791458501)
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02/2012
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Persons
Deborah P. Britzman is Distinguished Research Professor at York University. She is the author of many books, including The Very Thought of Education: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions; After-Education: Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Psychoanalytic Histories of Learning; and Lost Subjects, Contested Objects: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning, all published by SUNY Press.
Content
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Revised Edition
1. Contradictory Realities in Learning to Teach
2. The Structure of Experience and the Experience of Structure in Teacher Education
3. Narratives of Student Teaching: The Jamie Owl Stories
4. Narratives of Student Teaching: The Jack August Stories
5. Discourses of the Real in Teacher Education: Stories from Significant Others
6. Practice Makes Practice: The Given and the Possible in Teacher Education
7. "The Question of Belief": The Hidden Chapter of Practice Makes Practice
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Revised Edition
1. Contradictory Realities in Learning to Teach
2. The Structure of Experience and the Experience of Structure in Teacher Education
3. Narratives of Student Teaching: The Jamie Owl Stories
4. Narratives of Student Teaching: The Jack August Stories
5. Discourses of the Real in Teacher Education: Stories from Significant Others
6. Practice Makes Practice: The Given and the Possible in Teacher Education
7. "The Question of Belief": The Hidden Chapter of Practice Makes Practice
Notes
Bibliography
Index