Distance Education Materials From Government Agencies: Help Or Hindrance, Support Or Insult?  

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Perks, Pat ; Prestage, Stephanie

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Management in Education vol. 17 no. 2 (2003), page 6-8.
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Over the last few years we have seen a proliferation of materials for teachers from government agencies. Their contents usually include the repetition of inadequacy, the need to raise standards, which has lead to the provision of ‘right’ ways to do things. The National Strategy, for example, provides a great deal of advice in the form of ‘distance education’ materials – folders, CDs, videos and training packs.Teachers working across the educational spectrum must interpret these suggestions in order to make sense of them within their classrooms. At the same time, a particular image of education is being created, accompanied by an implicit model of professional development.Materials are often produced in glossy folders, to highlight their or their distributor’s importance(?).They may contain not only ideas for teaching but a claim to pedagogy.They include many metaphors that construct attitudes to teaching and learning – for example: springboard, catch-up, delivery.The power of the agencies and their materials has a way of creating ‘knowledge’ which becomes accepted and against which outputs are measured.

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