By Lindsay Kerr
One of the most important planks of conservative Ontario premiere Mike Harris's Nineties platform was once schooling reform. Amid a sea of legitimate experiences, coverage files and 'expert' reviews on schooling, despite the fact that, the voices of exact school room lecturers have been tough to discover. This omission is redressed in Lindsay Kerr'sBetween worrying & Counting. via a spotlight workforce of present-day secondary institution lecturers in Toronto, Kerr grants a passionate account of the unassailably destructive alterations affecting secondary schooling and lecturers' work.
From a serious feminist standpoint and utilizing institutional ethnography, Kerr situates the matter in schooling squarely as a clash among an 'accounting common sense' and 'an ethic of care on the centre of schooling practice.' She exposes paradoxes inherent in schooling reform corresponding to the rise of presidency regulate whilst that govt investment for schooling decreases. She additionally connects academic restructuring to adjustments within the strength kin of gender, type and race around the public schooling approach. those neighborhood adjustments, she unearths, don't mirror sound pedagogy however the imperatives of neoliberal globalization.
Counteracting melancholy with desire, Kerr explores self-reflexive feedback for teacher-educators to workout company of their lives and to proceed to paintings towards a simply and equitable public schooling system.
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A new education politics in Ontario had been born’ (p. vi). Indeed, as subsequent chapters reveal, almost all of the changes orchestrated under education restructuring by the PC government can be traced to specific recommendations made by the Royal Commission on Learning. Bestowed with re-envisioning public education and appointed by then NDP minister of education and training,5 Dave Cooke, the royal commissioners exhibit a singular lack of teaching experience in public schools. 6 A breakdown by gender shows that of the five commissioners, three were women and two men.
The student representative’s only actual cited contribution to the document is the title, For the Love of Learning, which has been denounced by educator-critics as a misnomer for the type of education system envisaged by the commission. This report superseded the earlier Hall-Dennis Report (1968), replacing what was a progressive, child-centred educational model with a reactionary, technocratic model driven by a one-size-fits-all approach. The ‘four engines’ driving the royal commission’s vision of education are early childhood education, teacher professionalization/education, technology, and community alliances.
These gaps between appearances and actuality indicate fault-lines that conceal/reveal the operation of underlying ruling relations. Expressions of uneasiness or heightened emotional content (either verbal or non-verbal as detected in speech patterns and body language), confusion, uncertainty, contradictions and discrepancies within and between teacher statements were cued as markers that determined the direction for further documentary textual analysis. The second process identified the ruling structures governing the public education system (the institution).
