TY - BOOK ID - 78138657 TI - The good teacher PY - 2004 SN - 1134308744 0415335655 1280077824 0203420276 9780203420270 0415335647 9781134308743 9780415335652 9781280077821 9781134308699 9781134308736 9780415335645 1134308736 PB - London New York RoutledgeFalmer DB - UniCat KW - Teachers KW - Effective teaching KW - Educational sociology KW - Training of UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78138657 AB - Moore's insightful text explores and makes better sense of professional practice by examining that practice in the context of popular views. The book identifies and elaborates three dominant discourses of good teaching: * the competent craftsperson, currently favoured by central governments, * the reflective practitioner, which continues to get widespread support among teacher trainers and educators, * the charismatic subject, whose popular appeal is evidenced in filmic and other media representations of teaching. All of these are critiqued on the basis of their capacity both to help and to hinder improved practice and understandings of practice. In particular, it is argued that the discourses all have a tendency, if not checked, to over-emphasise the individual teacher's or student teacher's responsibility for successful and unsuccessful classroom encounters, and to understate the role of the wider society and education system in such successes and failures.Winner of a Society for Education Studies book prize in 2005, this is a well-informed source of advice and support for teachers and anyone considering teaching as a career. ER -