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Stirring the Chalkdust: Tales of Teachers Changing Classroom Practicereviewed by Miriam Ben-Peretz - 1999 Title: Stirring the Chalkdust: Tales of Teachers Changing Classroom Practice Author(s): Patricia A. Wasley Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807734209, Pages: 231, Year: 1994 Search for book at Amazon.com "Teaching is not easily transformed, nor is the transformation
process something that one completes." (Wasley, 1994, p.
202)
This book is a joy to read because of the enchanting stories of
caring teachers who dare to change their teaching in productive
ways. Though completely naturalistic and genuine in her
documentation of school change, Wasley succeeds in portraying a
positive and hopeful picture of transformed educational
practice.
What do we know about the practice of teaching? Despite many
decades of research on teaching and thousands of years of actual
experience our under-standing of the practice of teaching is still
limited. Brown and Mclntyre (1993) argue that in order to improve
education an understanding of the nature of teaching must be a
priority: "In particular there is an urgent need to know more about
what teachers do well in classrooms and about how they do those
things" (p. 1).
Years ago Schwab (1970) admonished educators and researchers
that a practical program in the improvement of education
necessitates an extensive pattern of... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Miriam Ben-Peretz
University of Haifa
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