Understanding Schooling: An Introductory Sociology of Australian Education

ISBN-13: 9780415008952 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 338 str.

Miriam Henry;Etc.

Opis

This analysis of Australian schooling relates international sociological research to the actual experiences of teachers in the classroom, and sets those experiences in the wider context of the Australian school system.

Recenzje

`... it fills a gap in the field that has been there for many a year.' Discourse

Spis treści

Preface Introduction Teacher practice and sociological theory 1 Being a teacher 2 What makes a classroom? 3 The problem of school knowledge 4 Understanding the system 5 Students in context 6 Schooling processes and educational outcomes 7 School and society 8 Teachersand change 9 Radical teaching and the adaptive school

O autorze

Miriam Henry, John Knight, Robert Lingard, Sandra Taylor