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Teacher Education as Academic Work: The Affordances of a Materialist Analysis
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Nuttall, Joce; Brennan, Marie – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
In this paper we make an argument for paying close attention to the materiality of practice in understanding the work of teacher educators; specifically, the meanings of artefacts used by teacher educators in the course of their daily work. We locate this analysis within a dialectical materialist understanding of the development of human activity,…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Educators, Affordances, Marxian Analysis
Research for Praxis: Knowing Doing
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Kemmis, Stephen – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2010
Educational action is a species of praxis in both an Aristotelian sense and a post-Marxian sense: in the first, it involves the morally informed and committed action of the individual practitioners who practise education; in the second, it helps to shape social formations and conditions for collectivities of people. In this paper, it is argued…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Research Utilization, Theory Practice Relationship
Critical Literacy: Foundational Notes
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Luke, Allan – Theory Into Practice, 2012
The term "critical literacy" refers to use of the technologies of print and other media of communication to analyze, critique, and transform the norms, rule systems, and practices governing the social fields of everyday life (A. Luke, 2004). Since Freire's (1970) educational projects in Brazil, approaches to critical literacy have been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Literacy, Critical Theory, Critical Reading