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Backing the right horse: Teacher education, sociocultural analysis and literacy in rural education
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posted on 2023-05-18, 10:10 authored by Michael CorbettThis 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
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Publication title
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and StudiesVolume
26Pagination
82-86ISSN
0742-051XDepartment/School
Faculty of EducationPublisher
Pergamon-Elsevier Science LtdPlace of publication
The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, England, Ox5 1GbRights statement
Copyright 2009 Elsevier Ltd.Repository Status
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