Changing Teachers' Work (Changing Education)

Type

Book

Authors

Helsby, Gill

Helsby

ISBN 10

0335199380

ISBN 13

9780335199389

Tags

Reform & Policy, Instruction Methods, Secondary Education

Abstract

Growing political, economic and social uncertainties through out the world have prompted many governments to reform their national education systems. This book looks at the effects of these reforms and finds that, far from improving education, they have often made it more difficult for teachers to do a good job in classroom. It is divided into 11 chapters and the chapters are as follows: Changing discourses for new times, Changing teachers's work: structure, culture and agency, Changing frameworks, changing systems, Changing what teachers teach, Changing how teachers teach, Changing patterns of association, Changing pace of work, Changing in accountability, Changing in school organization and management, Changing in teachers' professional development, and the chapter is conclusion.

Description

Includes references and index.

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