Trust in Education : Truth and Values

by Satterthwaite, Jerome; Piper, Heather; Sikes, Pat; Webster, Simon

• ISBN13: 9781858564883
• ISBN10: 1858564883
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-30
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

This book examines the nature and role of trust in contemporary culture where consoling traditional certainties are lost. We need to trust people, institutions, values and truths; but where should we turn to find them? Does trusting make us vulnerable to abuse? More urgently still, is it safe for learners'”the children, young people and adults in the world of contemporary education'”to trust their teachers to care, and to tell the truth? And can teachers trust their managers and institutional practices? This is the eighth volume in the Discourse, Power, Resistanceseries. It has established a reputation for radical critique of the values and practices of contemporary education, and for the steady affirmation of what is best and most significant in emerging educational discourse. The writers in this volume are drawn from eight different countries. They present a penetrating critical analysis of the breakdown of trust in education and beyond, coupled with a down-to-earth account of the way ahead if that trust is to be recovered.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Trust
Truths and Values: education in a cynical and sceptical society	p. 3
Trust the education system ... to be racist	p. 29
Wavering Conditions of Trust and Resistance	p. 51
Dance like a butterfly, sting like a bee: Moments of trust, power and heutagogic leadership in post-compulsory education	p. 69
Education, Truths and Values
Becoming a European Citizen: Education to Overcome Mistrust	p. 87
Becoming a European Union citizen - getting to the end of the highway to heaven	p. 111
Trust and Rationality: Epistemic tensions in managerialism and pupil voice in schools	p. 125
On the edge of chaos: inner city schools and the unequal burden of uncertainty	p. 145
Contributors	p. 165
Index	p. 169
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