High School Philosophy Teachers’ Use of Textbooks: Critical Thinking or Teaching to the Text?

dc.creator	Pinto, Laura Elizabeth
dc.creator	McDonough, Graham P.
dc.creator	Boyd, Dwight
dc.date	2011-11-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:21:01Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:21:01Z
dc.identifier	1937-3929
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/bad10d177c6543acab47f072db9d1c10
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/20280
dc.description	Ontario is the only North American, English-speaking jurisdiction to include philosophy in secondary schools. In this first study to examine Ontario high school philosophy courses, we investigated what sorts of textbooks teachers used, how they used them, and the reasons for their pedagogical choices when using textbooks. Despite claims that philosophy promotes critical thinking, an online survey of 53 high school philosophy teachers and personal interviews with a subset of 14 revealed their use of textbooks did not match this ideal. Teachers cited insecurities with knowledge, a lack of pedagogical training, their own perception that students were incapable of challenging texts, and pressure to meet provincial curriculum policy demands as factors that contributed to their pedagogical choices.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	East Carolina University
dc.relation	http://www.joci.ecu.edu/index.php/JoCI/article/view/65/pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1937-3929
dc.source	Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 45-78 (2011)
dc.subject	philosophy education
dc.subject	textbooks
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	High School Philosophy Teachers’ Use of Textbooks: Critical Thinking or Teaching to the Text?
dc.type	article