Otago University Press warmly
invites you to celebrate the publication of Disobedient
Teaching by Welby Ings.
When: 6.00–7.30pm, Wednesday 29 March 2017
Where: The Wave Room [WG308], Sir
Paul Reeves Building, AUT, 55 Wellesley Street, Auckland
RSVP: publicity@otago.ac.nz by
22 March
By Welby Ings
This book is about disobedience. Positive disobedience. Disobedience as a kind of professional behaviour. It shows how teachers can survive and even influence an education system that does staggering damage to potential. More importantly it is an arm around the shoulder of disobedient teachers who transform people’s lives, not by climbing promotion ladders but by operating at the grassroots.
Disobedient Teaching tells stories
from the chalk face. Some are funny and some are heartbreaking, but they all happen
in New Zealand schools.
This book says you can reform things
in a system that has become obsessed with assessment and tick-box reporting. It
shows how the essence of what makes a great teacher is the ability to change
educational practices that have been shaped by anxiety, ritual and convention.
Disobedient Teaching argues the
transformative power of teachers who think and act.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
WELBY INGS is a professor in design at Auckland University of Technology. He is an elected Fellow of the British Royal Society of Arts and a consultant to many international organisations on issues of creativity and learning. He is also an award-winning academic, designer, filmmaker and playwright. But until the age of 15 Welby could neither read nor write. He was considered ‘slow’ at school and he was eventually expelled. Later he was suspended from teachers’ college.
Welby has taught at all levels of
the New Zealand education system and remains an outspoken critic of the
education system’s ‘obsession’ with assessing performance. In 2001 he was
awarded the Prime Minister’s inaugural Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching
Excellence.
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