The Teacher and the World av David Hansen

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<P><STRONG>Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association''s 2013 Critics Choice Award!</STRONG></P><P>Teachers the world over are seeking creative ways to respond to the problems and possibilities generated by globalization. Many of them work with children and youth from increasingly varied backgrounds, with diverse needs and capabilities. Others work with homogeneous populations and yet are aware that their students will encounter many cultural changes in their lifetimes. All struggle with the contemporary conditions of teaching: endless top-down measures to manipulate what they do, rapid economic turns and inequality in supportive resources that affect their lives and those of their students, a torrent of media stimuli that distract educational focus, and growth as well as shifts in population.</P><P></P><P>In <EM>The Teacher and the World</EM>, David T. Hansen provides teachers with a way to reconstruct their philosophies of education in light of these conditions. He d