How to Challenge the System and Become a Better Teacher

Scott Buckler - Independent Academic
How to Challenge the System and Become a Better Teacher
April 2021 | 176 pages | Sage UK
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This book empowers you to seek a deeper perspective on the education system and to develop as a critically informed teacher able to challenge the status quo appropriately – without losing your job!

It focuses on the need to engage with research, to reflect critically and question your own teaching practice, so you don’t get stuck in bad or ineffective routines and can develop personally and professionally as a confident, versatile educator.

Key topics include:

·        Understanding the pressure points in today’s education system

·        Developing your own educational philosophy

·        Reading and critiquing research to sharpen your thinking

·        How to make change happen

Scott Buckler is a teacher, a Chartered Psychologist and has recently become a Chartered Teacher.

Contents

PART 1 Anarchy in Education: Perspectives and Practice

  • Chapter 1: What is Anarchy?
  • Chapter 2: An Anarchist Critique of Education
  • Chapter 3: The Purification of Education – A Quiet Revolution
  • Chapter 4: Educational Anarchy in Practice
  • Chapter 5: Philosophy, Values and Visions
  • Chapter 6: Perspectives on Education

PART 2 The Anarchist Educator: Making the Change

  • Chapter 7: Reading & Critiquing
  • Chapter 8: Challenging and Changing the System
  • Chapter 9: Anarchy in Action
  • Chapter 10: Ten Guiding Principles for the Educational Anarchist

Description

 

This book empowers you to seek a deeper perspective on the education system and to develop as a critically informed teacher able to challenge the status quo appropriately – without losing your job!

It focuses on the need to engage with research, to reflect critically and question your own teaching practice, so you don’t get stuck in bad or ineffective routines and can develop personally and professionally as a confident, versatile educator.

Key topics include:

·        Understanding the pressure points in today’s education system

·        Developing your own educational philosophy

·        Reading and critiquing research to sharpen your thinking

·        How to make change happen

Scott Buckler is a teacher, a Chartered Psychologist and has recently become a Chartered Teacher.

Contents

PART 1 Anarchy in Education: Perspectives and Practice

  • Chapter 1: What is Anarchy?
  • Chapter 2: An Anarchist Critique of Education
  • Chapter 3: The Purification of Education – A Quiet Revolution
  • Chapter 4: Educational Anarchy in Practice
  • Chapter 5: Philosophy, Values and Visions
  • Chapter 6: Perspectives on Education

PART 2 The Anarchist Educator: Making the Change

  • Chapter 7: Reading & Critiquing
  • Chapter 8: Challenging and Changing the System
  • Chapter 9: Anarchy in Action
  • Chapter 10: Ten Guiding Principles for the Educational Anarchist
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How to Challenge the System and Become a Better Teacher


April 2021 | 176 pages | Sage UK

Format Published Date ISBN Price
Paperback 31/03/2026 9781526446213 $66.00
Hardcover 31/03/2026 9781526446206 $130.00
180 Day Ebook 28/03/2023 9781529765397 $39.00
Lifetime 28/03/2023 9781529765397 $56.00

 

This book empowers you to seek a deeper perspective on the education system and to develop as a critically informed teacher able to challenge the status quo appropriately – without losing your job!

It focuses on the need to engage with research, to reflect critically and question your own teaching practice, so you don’t get stuck in bad or ineffective routines and can develop personally and professionally as a confident, versatile educator.

Key topics include:

·        Understanding the pressure points in today’s education system

·        Developing your own educational philosophy

·        Reading and critiquing research to sharpen your thinking

·        How to make change happen

Scott Buckler is a teacher, a Chartered Psychologist and has recently become a Chartered Teacher.


Table Of Contents:

  • PART 1 Anarchy in Education: Perspectives and Practice
  • Chapter 1: What is Anarchy?
  • Chapter 2: An Anarchist Critique of Education
  • Chapter 3: The Purification of Education – A Quiet Revolution
  • Chapter 4: Educational Anarchy in Practice
  • Chapter 5: Philosophy, Values and Visions
  • Chapter 6: Perspectives on Education
  • PART 2 The Anarchist Educator: Making the Change
  • Chapter 7: Reading & Critiquing
  • Chapter 8: Challenging and Changing the System
  • Chapter 9: Anarchy in Action
  • Chapter 10: Ten Guiding Principles for the Educational Anarchist

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Really excellent book to encourage critical thinking skills in Masters students.
Dr Heather Macdonald, Education and Children's Services, Chester University

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