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About the book
Going Public With Our Teaching: An Anthology
of Practice is a collection of work produced
by teachers nationwide who have made teacher
inquiry and research a focus of their work. The
volume addresses key problems of practice across
grade levels and diverse contexts, and captures
how teachers have come to new understandings
about these problems. The collection reflects
the diversity of styles and genres in which teachers
present their work today, including new forms
of representation that use video, audio, and
the Internet to make teaching public and broadly
accessible.
This collection grows out of our experiences in
designing and leading the K–12
program of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship
of Teaching (CASTL). Under the auspices of The
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,
the K–12 program of CASTL, along with the CASTL
higher education program, launched in 1997,
was established in order to enhance the practice
and profession of teaching and to bring to teaching
the recognition and reward afforded to other forms
of scholarly work. As Lee Shulman, the president
of the Carnegie Foundation, argues, teachers make
their examinations public and subject them to critical
review by peers, and when others are able to build
upon those examinations to advance their own work,
teachers are meeting many of the same criteria
that are used to distinguish scholarly work in
many other disciplines.
Going Public With Our Teaching: An
Anthology of Practice
Thomas Hatch, Dilruba Ahmed, Ann Lieberman, Deborah
Faigenbaum, Melissa Eiler White, and Desiree H.
Pointer Mace, Editors
Teachers
College Press
328 Pages
May 2005
ISBN: 0807745898
$24.95
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"Teaching is like dry ice;
it evaporates at room temperature unless gifted
and courageous teachers like those writing in this
volume take the initiative to go public. Bravo
for this superb publication of the scholarship
of teaching."
– Lee Shulman
President, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
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"Using inspiring stories
and innovative accompanying websites, this engaging
book is certain to add to the ongoing conversation
on education reform and the pivotal place of teachers
in that conversation."
– Sonia Nieto
University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
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"Finally, a much-needed
and inspiring book that describes the context,
culture, and complexities of good teaching. The
authors have captured the essence of teaching as
an intellectually rigorous, reflective, and humane
act devoted to the achievement of all children."
– Jacqueline Jordan Irvine
Candler Professor of Urban Education, Emory University |
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