The life and work of teachers : international perspectives in changing times /

Contributors from around the world tackle the factors that have the greatest impact on creating quality learning opportunities for students: namely policy, school leadership and teaching/teachers' lives. Drawing on a range of critical conceptual and empirical perspectives, the contributions ill...

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Other Authors: Day, Christopher, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Falmer Press, 2000
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Table of Contents:
  • Professional knowledge and the teacher's life and work / Ivor Goodson
  • Politics of the secret garden : teachers and the school curriculum in England and Wales / Gary McCulloch
  • Changing primary schools in Hong Kong : perspectives on policy and its impact / Paul Morris, K.K. Chan and Lo Mun Ling
  • Educational researchers : living with a lesser form of knowledge / David F. Labaree
  • Rethinking the practice of teacher professionalism / Judyth Sachs
  • Multiple truths and contested realities : the changing faces of teacher professionalism in England / Gill Helsby
  • Stories of change and professional development : the costs of commitment / Christopher Day
  • New work order and Australian schools / Shirley Grundy and Stewart Bonser
  • Working-time blues : how Norwegian teachers experience restructuring in education / Kirsti Klette
  • Student teachers' struggle in becoming professionals : hopes and dilemmas in teacher education / Trond E. Hauge
  • Rethinking the work of teachers and school leaders in an age of change / Ibrahim Bajunid
  • Steering in and steering out of the school / Gunnar Berg
  • School principals in transition : conflicting expectations, demands and desires / Jorunn Møller
  • Preparing for external inspection : school leadership as a continuing project in identity construction / Colin Biott and Franz Rauch
  • Leadership in an era of change : breaking down the barriers of the culture of teaching / Alicia Fernandez
  • Reinventing school leadership for lasting reform in the third millennium / Brian J. Caldwell.