Testing Teachers: The Effect of School Inspections on Primary Teachers

ISBN-13: 9780750707879 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 264 str.

Bob Jeffrey; Peter Woods

Opis

Since the 1992 Education Act inaugurated national arrangements for inspection, schools have operated within an inspection climate which prevades every aspect of school life on a continual basis. The significance of OFSTED inspections cannot be overestimated. They are often the most challenging, searching, uncompromising and stressful events teacher have to experience. What effects do they have on teachers and their work, on their self and role, and on school policy and ethos? Drawing on six case studies from contrasting primary schools over a three-year period, this book reveals who OFSTED inspections were received within primary schools. It aims to meet the need for detailed, rigorous research into inspections and their effects on teachers.

Spis treści

Introduction; Notes from the Field (1): Inspection Week at Lowstate; Chapter 1 Bridging the Gap: The Inspectors’ Perspective; Notes from the Field (2): Monday Early Encounters; Chapter 2 A Conflict of Values: The Teachers’ Perspective; Notes from the Field (3): Tuesday Aclimatization Day; Chapter 3 The Colonization of Teachers’ Lives, Selves and Work; Notes from the Field (4): Wednesday The Longest Day Chapter 4 Feeling Deprofessionalized: The Social Construction of Teacher Emotions; Notes from the Field (5): Thursday Last Performance; Chapter 5 Coping with Ofsted Inspections; Notes from the Field (6): Friday Celebration and Review

O autorze

Bob Jeffrey is Research Fellow at the Open University and has published research, together with Peter Woods, on teacher creativity, primary teacher discourses on work, pupils' perspectives of creative learning and the restructuring of primary teachers' work. Peter Woods is Professor of Education at the Open University. He has written extensively in the areas of teacher and pupil interaction, teacher creativity, and the methodology of ethnographic research.