Tom Rademacher – författare

Tom Rademacher wishes someone had handed him this sort of book along with his teaching degree: a clear-eyed, frank, boots-on-the ground account of what he was getting into. But first he had to write it. And as 2014s Minnesota Teacher of the Year, Rademacher knows what hes talking about. Less a how-to manual than a tribute to an impossible and impossibly rewarding profession, It Wont Be Easy captures the experience of teaching in all its messy glory. The book follows a year of teaching, with each chapter tackling a different aspect of the job. Pulling no punches (and resisting no punch lines), he writes about establishing yourself in a new building; teaching meaningful classes, keeping students a priority; investigating how race, gender, and identity affect your work; and why its a good idea to keep an extra pair of pants at school. Along the way he answers the inevitable and the unanticipated questions, from what to do with Google to how to tell if youre really a terrible teacher, to why Keep your head downmight well be the worst advice for a new teacher. Though directed at prospective and newer teachers, It Wont Be Easy is mercifully short on jargon and long on practical wisdom, accessible to anyone-teacher, student, parent, pundit-who is interested in a behind-the-curtain look at teaching and willing to understand that, while there are no simple answers, there is power in learning to ask the right questions.

The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant child Seven-year-old Ollie was researching local advanced school programs-because every second grader does that, right? Ollie, who used to hate weekends because they meant no school, was crying on the way to school almost every day. Sure, there were the slings and arrows of bullies and bad teachers, but, maybe worse, Ollie, a funny, anxious, smart kid with a thing for choir and an eye for graphic art, was gravely underchallenged and also struggling with identity and how to live totally as themselves. Ollie begged to switch to a new school with “kids like me,” where they wouldn’t feel so alone, or so bored, and so they made the change. Raising Ollie is dad Tom Rademacher’s story (really, many stories) of that eventful and sometimes painful school year, parenting Ollie and relearning every day what it means to be a father and teacher. As Ollie-who is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, and prefers art to athletics, vegetables to cake, and animals to most humans-flourishes in their new school, Rademacher is making an eye-opening adjustment to a new school of his own, one that’s whiter and more suburban than anywhere he has previously taught, with a history of racial tension that he tries to address and navigate. While Ollie is learning to code, 3D model, animate, speak Japanese, and finally feel comfortable at school, Rademacher increasingly sees how his own educational struggles, anxieties, and childhood upbringing are reflected in his teaching, writing, and parenting, as well as in Ollie’s experience. And with this story of one anything-but-academic year of inquiry and wonder, doubt and revelation, he shows us how raising a kid changes everything-and how much raising a kid like Ollie can teach us about who we are and what we’re doing in the world.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Philosophie der Antike, Note: 1,3, Universität zu Köln (Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Gegenstand dieser Hausarbeit ist die Rolle von Platons Bildungstheorie in Bezug zu seiner Ideenlehre. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, herauszuarbeiten, was Bildung für Platon bedeutet und welche Rolle diese in seiner Ideenlehre spielt. Der Fokus wird dabei auf die wichtigsten Merkmale seiner Bildungstheorie und Ideenlehre gelegt. Von besonderem Interesse ist dabei das Höhlengleichnis, aus dem Platons Ansichten zur Bildung und zu den Zielen von Bildung extrahierbar sind.Nach einer Erläuterung und allgemeinen Definition des Bildungsbegriffs wird zunächst auf Platons Bildungstheorie eingegangen. In Kapitel 2 wird das Höhlengleichnis beschrieben und die daraus abgeleiteten Aussagen erörtert. Außerdem wird auf Eros als Bildungsantrieb näher eingegangen. Abschließend wird die Ideenlehre Platons charakterisiert und seine „Idee des Guten“ analysiert, um sie in einen Zusammenhang mit seinen Ausführungen zur Bildung zu bringen. Diese Vorgehensweise bietet den Vorteil, dass die Unterschiede zwischen Platons Verständnis von Bildung und der allgemeinen Definition deutlich gemacht werden können. Der abschließende Einbezug der Ideenlehre ermöglicht so die Beantwortung der Frage nach der Rolle, die Bildung in Platons Ideenlehre spielt.In seinem Werk „Der Staat“ legt Platon seine Gedanken zur Bildung dar. Seine Theorie gilt unter Bildungsforschenden jeglicher Couleur bis heute als eine der zentralen Theorien. Sie wird auch im Jahr 2021 noch gelehrt und Studierende verschiedenster Fachrichtungen setzen sich mit ihr auseinander. Darüber hinaus ist Platons Ideenlehre eine philosophische Konzeption, welche oft rezipiert wird und auch interdisziplinär viel Beachtung findet.