Plenty of teachers try to reject that role but face two hurdles -- standard curricula, which are definitely corporate functionaries as you so eloquently point out; and then the ire of colleagues for "rocking the boat". I saw it only from a short distance as college faculty trying to assist HS science teachers with curricula. It's a bloody jungle in there.
Plenty of teachers try to reject that role but face two hurdles -- standard curricula, which are definitely corporate functionaries as you so eloquently point out; and then the ire of colleagues for "rocking the boat". I saw it only from a short distance as college faculty trying to assist HS science teachers with curricula. It's a bloody jungle in there.
I saw and lived it in many modes over many years. It's a jungle alright, wherein even Tarzan might likely not survive.