Demythologizing teaching and learning in education: Towards a research agenda

摘要: Myths occupy an enduringly powerful position in teaching and learning objectives, activities outcomes contemporary education. also generate a range of responses from education researchers: some researchers seek to challenge transform persistent myths associated with disempowering stereotypes; focus on interrogating understood as popular mis/conceptions about learning; conceptualize sets narratives stories that evoke timely or timeless messages current educational practice need be comprehended. Finally, can productive tools themselves, they create (and sometimes recreate) are neatly wrapped around culturally based ‘truths’. The following chapters interrogate assumptions upon which variety contexts is based, drawing together rich array perspectives methodologies. Some scrupulous empirical research others the critically alert interpretation theory. take up idea ‘myth’ different ways. Of course any rationalist sense, anything ‘mythical’ ‘untrue’, but arguably something mythic crosses into areas faith belief. In chapters, authors argue there critical scrutiny misplaced, aspects scholarship technology.