
What Teachers Do
Changing Policy and Practice in Primary Education
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published on 1. January 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-8264-5073-9 (ISBN)
Description
A comprehensive analysis of the work of teachers as it impinges on children, colleagues, other professionals, managers, parents, the community, and educational policy. In the process it relates theoretical perspectives to 15 detailed case studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
488 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-5073-9 (9780826450739)
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Persons
Andrew Pollard is Professor of Education Policy and Practice and supports educational research at the IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He was Director of the UK-wide Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP). Patricia Broadfoot is Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Education at the University of Gloucestershire, UK, and former Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Education at the University of Bristol, UK. She has been awarded a CBE. Elizabeth McNess is head of the Document Summary Service at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, UK. Marilyn Osborn is Professor in Education at the University of Bristol, UK, where she is Director of Hong Kong EdD. Pat Triggs is Research Associate at the University of Bristol, UK.
Author
IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK
Content
Research design and data gathering methods; teacher's work, professional identity and change; teacher stances and strategies in response to change; teacher's working relationships - becoming a collaborative professional? teachers and curriculum; teachers and pedagogy; teachers and assessment; case studies in values, understanding and power; the changing role of headteachers.