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deskilling  

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  • Deskilling, as it pertains to the teaching profession, refers to the reduction of the teacher's role in the classroom to that of a conveyor of information. The teacher is expected to iterate assigned information to students, and the students are merely to reiterate this information back. [Source: Encyclopedia ofthe Social and Cultural Foundations of Education; Deskilling]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-KBJKQKSC-P

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