ENVR 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Blackboard, Mansplaining, Abortion-Rights Movements

• School: McGill University
• Department: Environment
• Course: ENVR 202
• Professor: Jason Scott Ferrell

Document Summary

Equity and education guest lecturer: classroom life the everyday work of a teacher (coffey & delamont reading) Everyday work of a teacher is divided into: 1) immediacy and autonomy, 2) control of talk, 3) discipline and control. Teachers have to make immediate decisions about immediate situations. Need for immediacy is linked to teacher autonomy. Yes, there are policies, but you have to make decisions for every situation that happens in your class. What is teacher autonomy: tea(cid:272)he(cid:396)s(cid:859) i(cid:374)depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)t a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to e(cid:454)e(cid:396)(cid:272)ise thei(cid:396) judg(cid:373)e(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d a(cid:272)t o(cid:374) it, why are immediacy and teacher autonomy linked, because things are happening in the moment. Plus, the (cid:396)ules of the i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374) (cid:894)(cid:455)ou(cid:396) s(cid:272)hool, s(cid:272)hool (cid:271)oa(cid:396)d(cid:859)s codes, etc. : often times, we think teachers have autonomy, but only within the boundary of institution and profession. Class(cid:396)oo(cid:373) is a(cid:374) (cid:862)i(cid:374)te(cid:396)a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e a(cid:374)d (cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:271)al e(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:396)o(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) that (cid:373)ust (cid:271)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)olled. Teacher can control actual language used and the way which language is used.