Teachers' Work

ISBN-13: 9780367719555 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 228 str.

Rw Connell

Opis

Teachers' Work is a highly readable and often amusing account of the reality of teachers' working lives that will give teachers themselves cause for reflection, give students a picture of the real world of teaching, and allow parents an insight into how things look from the other side of the school wall.

Spis treści

Introduction

PART ONE: TEACHERS' LIVES

1 Sheila Goffman and Margaret Blackall

2 Terry Petersen

3 Angus Barr

4 Rosa Marshall

5 Jack Ryan

PART TWO: TEACHERS' WORK

6 The labour process and division of labour

7 The curriculum

8 Relationships with kids

9 The school as a workplace

PART THREE: TEACHERS' WORLDS

10 Being a teacher

11 Teachers' outlooks

12 Teachers' politics and teachers' power

Notes

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

R. W. Connell is Professor of Sociology at Macquarie University and one of Australia's leading social theorists. This book is an outcome of a research project (described in the earlier book, Making the Difference undertaken with D. J. Ashenden, S. Kessler and G. W. Dowsett).