Educational Aims

Rethinking “Best Practices”: Teaching Beyond Technique

Posted on 20 July 2019 by Dr Kevin Smith

Have we mistaken good technique for good teaching? In this post, Dr Kevin Talbert challenges the “best practices” orthodoxy in education and argues for teacher preparation that cultivates wisdom, reflection and moral purpose. Drawing on Freire and Harris, he makes the case for re-centring teaching on values and vocation, not standardised methods.