Who Controls Teachers' Work? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Who Controls Teachers' Work? write by Richard M. Ingersoll. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Who Controls Teachers' Work? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Schools are places of learning but they are also workplaces, and teachers are employees. As such, are teachers more akin to professionals or to factory workers in the amount of control they have over their work? And what difference does it make? Drawing on large national surveys as well as wide-ranging interviews with high school teachers and administrators, Richard Ingersoll reveals the shortcomings in the two opposing viewpoints that dominate thought on this subject: that schools are too decentralized and lack adequate control and accountability; and that schools are too centralized, giving teachers too little autonomy. Both views, he shows, overlook one of the most important parts of teachers' work: schools are not simply organizations engineered to deliver academic instruction to students, as measured by test scores; schools and teachers also play a large part in the social and behavioral development of our children. As a result, both views overlook the power of implicit social controls in schools that are virtually invisible to outsiders but keenly felt by insiders. Given these blind spots, this book demonstrates that reforms from either camp begin with inaccurate premises about how schools work and so are bound not only to fail, but to exacerbate the problems they propose to solve.
Teaching and Its Predicaments
Teaching and Its Predicaments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching and Its Predicaments write by David K. Cohen. This book was released on 2011-08-31. Teaching and Its Predicaments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since Socrates, teaching has been a difficult and even dangerous profession. Why is teaching such hard work? In this provocative, witty, sometimes rueful book, Cohen writes about the predicaments that teachers face and explores what responsible teaching can be. He focuses on the kind of mind reading teaching demands and the resources it requires.
Teachers' Work in a Globalizing Economy
Teachers' Work in a Globalizing Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teachers' Work in a Globalizing Economy write by Alistair Dow. This book was released on 2005-08-02. Teachers' Work in a Globalizing Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Extended critical case studies provide a tangible working expression of the labour process of teaching, showing how teachers are simultaneously experiencing significant changes to their work, as well as responding in ways that actively shape these processes. For teachers and researchers, this book shows what processes are at work in the global economy which impact on, and sometimes control, the role of the teacher. It also reveals how teachers accommodate, resist or redefine their working circumstances, and explores methods researchers might employ in order to increase our understanding and knowledge of the effect of globalization on teaching.
The Teacher Wars
The Teacher Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Teacher Wars write by Dana Goldstein. This book was released on 2015-08-04. The Teacher Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education that brings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face today—and brilliantly illuminates the path forward for public schools. “[A] lively account." —New York Times Book Review In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been embattled for nearly two centuries. She uncovers the surprising roots of hot button issues, from teacher tenure to charter schools, and finds that recent popular ideas to improve schools—instituting merit pay, evaluating teachers by student test scores, ranking and firing veteran teachers, and recruiting “elite” graduates to teach—are all approaches that have been tried in the past without producing widespread change.
New Realities of Secondary Teachers' Work Lives
New Realities of Secondary Teachers' Work Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Realities of Secondary Teachers' Work Lives write by Pam Poppleton. This book was released on 2004-05-10. New Realities of Secondary Teachers' Work Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There are many books on educational change, its origins, processes and consequences. The unique contribution of this volume lies in its careful documenting and reporting of the reactions of teachers themselves, interviewed in 9 countries, about the changes they have experienced and in the comparative nature of the study, which employs both qualitative and quantitative methods in a complementary way. In Part One the educational background to the study in each country is described and teachers’ responses to a common research, semi-structured interview schedule are reported. In Part Two the same database is subjected to a statistical analysis for comparative purposes in order to reveal similarities and differences between countries. The project set out to obtain an international picture of the changes in education which have had the greatest impact on the lives of teachers; to explore how actual and perceived changes have influenced teachers’ experience and practice; and to identify critical factors in the implementation of change. The result is a book that will enable students to familiarise themselves with practices in other countries and policy makers to evaluate the implications of changes in different social, economic and cultural environments.
