Teacher deskilling under management pedagogies weakens education as a democratic force

Evidence

The deskilling of teachers and the emphasis placed on instrumental rationality pose a serious threat to education as democratizing force, the advancement of critical and analytical thinking, and the development of critical inquiry and engaged citizenship. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 196

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Teacher-proofing curricula reduce experienced teachers to semi-skilled low-paid workers; Seemingly technical teaching choices are politically and economically embedded — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 192; Educational reform fails when it changes curricula rather than the social complex producing teachers — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 355 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Systemic dual-pressures drive the best liberatory teachers out of classrooms #corroborates (0.85) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1461
• Immediacy theory compounds academic deskilling caused by plutocratic destruction of education #expands (0.82) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 251
• Academic institutions structurally reward conventional teaching and punish engaged pedagogy #corroborates (0.82) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 403
• Educational reform fails when it changes curricula rather than the social complex producing teachers #expands (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 355
• Departmental overloading of popular professors covertly undermines engaged teaching #exemplifies (0.80) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 404
• Avoiding authoritarianism without directives can become neglectful laissez-faire teaching #complicates (0.80) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 736
• Self-disciplined, freedom-granting educational systems breed procrastination and teacher overload #complicates (0.78)
• Classroom ideology presents education as a democratic space where all learners are equal #qualifies (0.75) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 350
• Schools should educate for civic governance rather than test scores and expertise #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2686