Aliens in the Education Matrix: Recovering Freedom

Author: Hilliard III-Baffour Amankwatia, Asa¹

Source: The New Educator, Volume 2, Number 2, April-June 2006 , pp. 87-102(16)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

New teachers will find a rapidly changing school environment that has major implications for teaching and learning. New teachers will need to understand some of the forces and consequences of current policies and powerful ideological, political, and commercial interests that have shaped the way we think of the aims, methods, and contents of contemporary school experiences. The drift towards standardization of teaching and learning processes, and centralization of control, also reduces local professional and community awareness and responsibility for leadership, and becomes unconscious. New teachers can and must join the forces that recover conscious and creative leadership and control of instruction.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/15476880600657348

Affiliations: 1: Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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