TY - BOOK ID - 19377917 TI - Raging against the Mass-Schooling Machine PY - 2017 SN - 9463008497 9463008519 9463008500 9789463008518 9789463008495 9789463008501 PB - Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, DB - UniCat KW - Education. KW - Education, general. KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Schools KW - Teaching KW - Training KW - Education KW - First year teachers. KW - Teacher effectiveness. KW - Classroom management. KW - School discipline KW - School management and organization KW - Teacher quality KW - Teachers KW - Effective teaching KW - Beginning teachers KW - New teachers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19377917 AB - The biggest danger for beginning teachers is to teach as they were taught. In order to create teaching identities capable of resisting the mind-numbing orthodoxies of the mass-schooling machine, beginning teachers need to interrogate the theories and practices that have shaped them as teachers. Raging against the Mass-Schooling Machine is a compelling autoethnographic account of one beginning teacher’s struggle to transform his future teaching identity by unpacking the bruising encounters that shaped him as a student. This is a must-read book for all teachers wishing to ‘teach against the grain.’ The journey from student to teacher involves almost two decades of junior, primary, secondary, and tertiary education. Few of us critique this journey to see what emotional legacies and taken-for-granted assumptions we carry from one identity to the other. If we remain unconscious of the social and cultural discourses and practices that have shaped and defined us as students and teachers, we may unwittingly reproduce the inequalities, prejudices, and traumas we experienced or observed while growing up, or resort to transmission teaching and authoritarian control because this is the formula of schooling most of us know. Empowering education relies on teachers resisting these toxic scripts and becoming agents of change. ER -