This article (15 page PDF) is a wide-ranging interview with the author of The Skillful Teacher and many other works. Brookfield leans a lot more heavily on critical theory than I would, and (in this interview at least) is heavily influenced by Foucault (for example: "because of reading Foucault, I started inserting into my syllabus things like 'here's what you can expect from me' and when he "moved away from focusing on self-direction in the '80s to more into power dynamics," which of course we read a lot about in education more generally today." There are some good progressive bits (eg. "need to model my own commitment to discussion before I involve other people to be engaged") and some less-good bits, such as his commentary on MOOCs, which suffers, I think, because of a lack of knowledge.
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