Missed Opportunities for Inquiry: Dresden
Maxine Greene , in Teaching: The Question of Personal Reality (1978) - challenges teachers to recollect and remember why they got into teaching in the first place - assuming it was for more than the then (and now) focus on efficiency and bureaucracy (but I wonder if it holds true for those that enter for coaching purposes, as is often the case in my social studies experience). Pulling together memories from the past to once more feel the motivation and passion to teach can provide helpful guidance as they recall the personal reality of their classrooms - developing a self awareness that serves their ability to challenge the status quo. See, it's possible that, after starting to teach, one may forget the original drive and overall purpose of school and instead focus on running an efficient classroom that is orderly and neat, at the expense of student learning. Teachers become consumed by the observed limits and bureaucratic demands of schooling. Its ...