Introduction : ethical teacher dilemmas in a neoliberal age / Karen Ragoonaden -- Setting the path toward emancipatory practices : professor of teaching / Karen Ragoonaden -- Dwelling artfully in the academy : walking on precarious ground / Pamela Richardson -- Ideology, performativity, and the university / Catherine Broom -- Living and working in a global space : liminality within an academic life / Susan Crichton -- Performativity in the academy : negotiating ambition, desire, and the demands of femininity / Lynn Bosetti and Sabre Cherkowski -- On the educational value of philosophical ethics : a reflection on the problem of "relevance" in teacher education / Christopher Martin -- Developing mindful teacher leader identities in higher education / Sabre Cherkowski -- Academic identity within contested spaces of a university in transition / Lynn Bosetti.
Summary:
"Emerging from the contested site of a new university campus, educators reflect upon the transformative process of reconceptualising and rebuilding a faculty of education in the twenty-first century. Contested Sites in Education seeks to improve an understanding of and conversations about the nature, meaning and significance of higher education's public service within the scope of a democratic society. This volume offers educators and students a praxis-oriented, hope-infused, contemplative approach to conceiving, developing and in some cases, returning to public service and public identity in the twenty-first century. Contested Sites in Education will prepare future leaders who thoroughly understand, consciously apply and intentionally use democracy, self-knowledge, cultural knowledge, habits of mind, reflective learning communities and advocacy in their professional lives"--Page 4 of cover.
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