While the research on teacher education continues to proliferate, Practice Makes Practice remains the discipline’s indispensable classic text. Drawing upon critical ethnography, this new edition of this best-selling book asks the question, what does learning to teach do and mean to newcomers and to those who surround them? Deborah P. Britzman writes poignantly of the struggle for significance and the contradictory realities of secondary teaching. She offers a theory of difficulty in learning and explores why the blaming of individuals is so prevalent in education. The completely revised introduction presents a refined and further developed theoretical framework and analysis, discussing why we might to a study of teaching and learning. Also included in this updated edition is an insightful "hidden chapter" that comments on the methodology of the study and some of the dilemmas the author continues to face as her own thinking develops around the issues of representing teaching and learning for those just entering the profession.
Author(s): Deborah P. Britzman
Series: Teacher Empowerment and School Reform
Edition: Revised
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 304
Practice Makes Practice......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction to Revised Edition......Page 16
1. Contradictory Realities in Learning to Teach......Page 40
2. The Structure of Experience and the Experience of Structure in Teacher Education......Page 60
3. Narratives of Student Teaching: The Jamie Owl Stories......Page 90
4. Narratives of Student Teaching: The Jack August Stories......Page 140
5. Discourses of the Real in Teacher Education: Stories from Significant Others......Page 190
6. Practice Makes Practice: The Given and the Possible in Teacher Education......Page 236
7. “The Question of Belief ”: The Hidden Chapter of Practice Makes Practice......Page 258
INTRODUCTION......Page 270
CHAPTER ONE......Page 271
CHAPTER TWO......Page 275
CHAPTER THREE......Page 280
CHAPTER FOUR......Page 282
CHAPTER FIVE......Page 284
CHAPTER SIX......Page 286
CHAPTER SEVEN......Page 287
Bibliography......Page 290
C......Page 302
M......Page 303
W......Page 304
