An Education That Empowers: A Collection of Lectures in Memory of Lawrence Stenhouse (Bera Dialogues ; 10)

This book brings together five lectures given by eminent educationalists in memory of the work of Lawrence Stenhouse, an influential figure in the field of education during the 1970s and early 1980s. The lectures focus on different themes in his work, reviewing them in the light of recent policy changes. The lectures review issues to do with the school curriculum, teaching and learning, teacher education and teacher research. A strong theme across the papers is the authors' concern with the political context of educational change. Jean Rudduck has also published Innovation and Change, Dimensions of Discipline, and Developing a Gender Policy in Secondary Schools. Lawrence Stenhouse, an influential figure in education in the 1970s and early 1980s, was Director of the Humanities Curriculum Project, and foundedthe Centre for Applied Research in Education at theuniversity of East Anglia. He was an early advocate of teacher research and a radical supporter of qualitative research, and in particular of case study methods. He wrote about curriculum development, the art of teaching, and school-focused research in ways that were accessible, engaging and intellectually powerful. He died in 1982 but his ideas have a continuing relevance and his work is widely quoted Introduction / Jean Rudduck. -- The National Curriculum, School Organisation And The Teacher / Brian Simon. -- Initial Teacher Education And The Work Of Teachers / Donald Mcintyre. -- Uncertain Knowledge And Indeterminate Practice / Tony Edwards. -- Education In The Shadow Of The Education Reform Act / John Elliott. -- Some Ambiguities In Stenhouse's Notion Of 'the Teacher As Researcher': Towards A New Resolution / Stephen Kemmis. Edited By Jean Rudduck. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Lawrence Stenhouse was one of the most influential figures in education in the 1970s and early 1980s. After his death a Trust Fund was established to support an annual lecture in his memory. In 1988 the British Educational Research Association's Annual Conference became the regular setting for these lectures and the first five are collected here.