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Backing the right horse: Teacher education, sociocultural analysis and literacy in rural education
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Corbett, M, Backing the right horse: Teacher education, sociocultural analysis and literacy in rural education, Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 26, (1) pp. 82-86. ISSN 0742-051X (2010) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2009 Elsevier Ltd.
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.tate.2009.08.001
Abstract
This paper is a reflection on the way that a background in sociocultural theory and research actually
saved my teaching career by allowing me to shift from being a dispenser of knowledge to a cultural
neophyte attempting to understand where he is. Teaching then is understood as a reading exercise which
is undertaken in a particular place which itself needs to be read by the effective teacher. This is
a narrative inquiry into practice which represents an attempt to understand my own teaching career in
the light of Frank Smith’s (1984) provocative essay ‘‘How education backed the wrong horse’’ in which he
argues that anthropology would have made a better choice for a foundational discipline for education
than psychology. I conclude with some thoughts on what this perspective implies for literacy instruction
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | rural education, community, teacher education, culture, sociology |
| Research Division: | Education |
| Research Group: | Education systems |
| Research Field: | Continuing and community education |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in education |
| UTAS Author: | Corbett, M (Professor Michael Corbett) |
| ID Code: | 100556 |
| Year Published: | 2010 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 13 |
| Deposited By: | Education |
| Deposited On: | 2015-05-20 |
| Last Modified: | 2015-09-02 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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