Taking the Long View by Focusing on Description: Examining Bias, Agency, and the Messy Parts of Teaching

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2018-01-01
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McVee, Mary
Shanahan, Lynn
Hayden, H. Emily
Boyd, Fenice
Pearson, P. David
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The School of Education seeks to prepare students as educators to lead classrooms, schools, colleges, and professional development.

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The School of Education was formed in 2012 from the merger of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.

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Many times, teaching is viewed only in terms of the end product: what a lesson produces in terms of student learning. This all-or-nothing view ignores the many complicated components of teaching. Consider how this idea of teaching as a singular product is communicated. Some common sayings about teachers are: “Teachers are born, not made” or “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” These sayings and the ideologies behind them suggest that good teaching is an inborn trait or singular action: you’ve either got it or you don’t. But what if teaching were viewed as a layered process like archaeology or an exploded diagram? Such perspectives would no doubt help learners recognize that teaching is a complex, nuanced process that is situated within our own lived histories and embodied experiences.

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This is a manuscript of a chapter published as McVee, Mary B., Lynn E. Shanahan, H. Emily Hayden, Fenice B. Boyd, and P. David Pearson, "Taking the Long View by Focusing on Description: Examining Bias, Agency, and the Messy Parts of Teaching," in Video Pedagogy in Action: Critical Reflective Inquiry Using the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model (New York, NY: Routledge, 2018), 89-114. Available online at DOI: 10.4324/9781315175638. Posted with permission.

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