Sage Publications How to Challenge the System and Become a Better Teacher (Corwin Ltd)

Product Description This book empowers you to seek a deeper perspective on the education system and to develop as a critically informed teacher able to challenge the status quo appropriately – without losing your job! It focuses on the need to engage with research, to reflect critically and question your own teaching practice, so you don’t get stuck in bad or ineffective routines and can develop personally and professionally as a confident, versatile educator. Key topics include: ·        Understanding the pressure points in today’s education system ·        Developing your own educational philosophy ·        Reading and critiquing research to sharpen your thinking ·        How to make change happen About the Author Scott Buckler has an extensive career in education, as a primary and secondary school teacher, elearning developer, and as a principal lecturer, having worked for four universities predominantly in education, psychology and inclusion. Scott has led degree programmes from undergraduate to doctoral level, and lectured predominantly on applied educational psychology, research methods, elearning and leadership. Scott has a PhD in anthropology and is widely published in the areas of psychology and education. He is a Chartered Teacher and a Chartered Psychologist with expertise in transpersonal psychology. In recent years, Scott has returned to schools given that his belief that to work and write in the academic context of education, school experience needs to be both recent and relevant.