Teaching in the Knowledge Society : Education in the Age of Insecurity

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1(8) Teaching for the Knowledge Society: Educating for Ingenuity 9(26) The Paradoxical Profession 9(1) Before the Knowledge Society 10(4) Profiting from the Knowledge Society 14(4) Developing the Knowledge Society 18(5) Teaching for the Knowledge Society 23(12) Teaching Beyond the Knowledge Society: Dealing with Insecurity 35(37) The South Sea Bubble 35(2) The Knowledge and Information Bubble 37(3) From Information to Insecurity 40(3) Fundamentalism or Cosmopolitan Identity 43(6) Community and Character 49(5) Cultivating Social Capital 54(1) Educating for Democracy 55(2) Teaching beyond the Knowledge Society 57(15) Teaching Despite the Knowledge Society, Part I: The End of Ingenuity (with Michael Baker and Martha Foote) 72(24) The Cost of the Knowledge Society 72(1) Market Fundamentalism 73(1) Education Off the Rails 74(8) Standardized Policies 82(3) Standardized Practices 85(5) Teachers' Work and Relationships 90(6) Teaching Despite the Knowledge Society, Part II: The Loss of Integrity (with Shawn Moore and Dean Fink) 96(31) Introduction 96(3) The End of Ingenuity 99(16) The Absence of Integrity 115(12) The Knowledge-Society School: An Endangered Entity (with Corrie Giles) 127(33) The School as a Learning Community 127(11) The School as a Caring Community 138(5) The Pressured Community 143(12) Learning, Caring, and Surviving 155(5) Beyond Standardization: Professional Learning Communities or Performance-Training Sects? 160(29) Toward a Learning Profession 160(1) Futures for Teaching in the Knowledge Society 161(1) Cultures, Contracts, and Change 162(1) Culture Regimes 163(3) Contract Regimes 166(23) The Future of Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Rethinking Improvement, Removing Impoverishment 189(22) Differential Development 190(10) Conclusion 200(11) Appendix 211(10) Index 221(9) About the Author 230