These ideas have been further developed by writings by Schön (1983, 1987) who proposes that there is a need for teachers to recognise the complexity of teaching settings and "reframe" their viewpoints accordingly (Hoban & Hastings, 2006). ... Similar to Dewey, Schön recognised and addressed the need for a shift in the ideas that shaped the way teachers carried out their work. Schön (1983) claims that teachers need to recognise the "complexity, uncertainty, instability, uniqueness and value-conflict" (p.39, as cited in Hoban & Hastings, 2006, p.1007) of a teaching sett...

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The Hallway Hangers respected their teacher because he was raised in the projects where the students now live, he talked the way they did; he was tough and stubborn just like they were. ... In their book, Social Foundations of Educational Decisions, Fischer and Thomas state that distinctive things about a subculture (including language and behavior) have a definite influence on a child's learning style (26-27) and that "informal education- "which occurs outside of a formal school setting (mostly in the home) and is different in every family and subculture "causes differences in ...

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Description of General Setting Frank McCourt's first teaching position out of college was secured in 1958 by answering an ad in the New York Times for an English teacher at McKee Vocational and Technical High School on Staten Island. ... He compares that "schoolmasters in Limerick would never tolerate this carry-on. ... He goes on to describe what it was like to walk into his classroom for the first time, "When I walk in and place my books on the teacher's desk they"ll surely stop throwing things. But they don't. ... They interrupt him any way they can. ...

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