The Dynamism of the Current Global (and Globalized) Moments: Implications for Teachers, Administrators, and Other

Year 2013, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 35 - 46, 01.10.2013

Duncan Waıte

Abstract

The Dynamism of the Current Global (and Globalized) Moments: Implications for Teachers, Administrators, and Other Educational Leaders

Abstract

This article deals with the current conditions that have an impact upon teachers and their teaching. These global conditions are influenced by corporatist, corporativist, and neo-liberal forces, which are also discussed here. These global and increasingly globalizing trends make teaching difficult, even dangerous work, especially for the conscientious teacher, who must mediate helping the student in his/her becoming and doing the state’s work. Doing the state’s work generally involves disciplining the student and others, or policing the distribution of the sensible, and mediating these competing interests is difficult. Instructional supervision, educational leadership and educational administration are taken up, informed, especially, by Hazony’s discussion of the shepherd and the farmer

Keywords

Instructional supervision, educational leadership, administration, neo-liberalism

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• Atıf için / Please cite as: Waite, D. (2013). The dynamism of the current global (and globalized) moments: implications for teachers, administrators, and other educational leaders. Eğitim Bilimleri Araştırmaları Dergisi
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