Publisher's Synopsis
In six topical lectures, Richardson pays tribute to teachers' courage, commitment, imagination and energy, and defends them against the ill-informed and unfair attacks they have suffered from successive governments since 1988. He re-affirms concepts of teacher as artist and maker of history, of education for equality and social justice and of classroom as minature community. The text is a collection of contemporary lectures given at national or local conferences. Much use is made of story, imagery and metaphor, satire and jokes and quotations from fiction and poetry. The six texts are about the craft and art of the lecture - a script to be interpreted, performed and enacted, not merely "delivered" - and about education at its most inspirational.
