Pressure is increasing on all those involved in education, from teachers to policy-makers, to transform schools as organisations, while continuing to implement effective new approaches to teaching and learning. The demand is not only to reach attained targets, but also to be accountable for teaching methods. Developing Teachers and Teaching Practice brings together a selection of papers given at the ninth conference of the International Study Association of Teachers and Teaching (ISATT). The collection takes as a central theme the issue of education as a key concern within the...
Pressure is increasing on all those involved in education, from teachers to policy-makers, to transform schools as organisations, while continuing to ...
This book puts 'real life' back into the literature on school principalship. Through a life history approach, it portrays daily life in schools as a much more messy, contested and precarious existence, where principals struggle with passionate commitment to find continuity amongst frequently changing and often conflicting policy initiatives. The book draws on comprehensively in-depth interview data with new, experienced and veteran principals. Their life stories illustrate the struggles involved in the ongoing negotiation of identities through unprecedented change. The authors lucidly...
This book puts 'real life' back into the literature on school principalship. Through a life history approach, it portrays daily life in schools as a m...
Illustrates how, contrary to popular belief, child centred teaching can be positive, supportive and guiding. The author shows how child-centred teachers can successfully combine the best elements from traditional and modern practices.
Illustrates how, contrary to popular belief, child centred teaching can be positive, supportive and guiding. The author shows how child-centred teache...
This text illustrates how, contrary to popular belief, child-centred teaching can be structured, supportive and guiding. The author aims to show how child-centred teachers successfully combine the best elemetns from both traditional and progressive methods of teaching.
This text illustrates how, contrary to popular belief, child-centred teaching can be structured, supportive and guiding. The author aims to show how c...
This book puts 'real life' back into the literature on school principalship. Through a life history approach, it portrays daily life in schools as a much more messy, contested and precarious existence, where principals struggle with passionate commitment to find continuity amongst frequently changing and often conflicting policy initiatives. The book draws on comprehensively in-depth interview data with new, experienced and veteran principals. Their life stories illustrate the struggles involved in the ongoing negotiation of identities through unprecedented change. The authors lucidly...
This book puts 'real life' back into the literature on school principalship. Through a life history approach, it portrays daily life in schools as a m...
From a variety of perspectives, this text addresses a core question: in an increasingly insecure, unpredictable and de-regulated world, what does professional responsibility entail?
From a variety of perspectives, this text addresses a core question: in an increasingly insecure, unpredictable and de-regulated world, what does prof...
Within the Academy, itself a changing and increasingly entrepreneurial entity, publishing is no longer an option; it is the universal currency that secures a position, tenure and promotion; it is key to academic life. Providing a panoramic picture of the changing publishing climate, "Academic Life and the Publishing Landscape "will empower scholars by enabling them to navigate this changing terrain more successfully.
This book provides guidance from a range of contributors who use their own wide expertise in writing and publication to document the challenges faced by scholars at...
Within the Academy, itself a changing and increasingly entrepreneurial entity, publishing is no longer an option; it is the universal currency that...
Within the Academy, itself a changing and increasingly entrepreneurial entity, publishing is no longer an option; it is the universal currency that secures a position, tenure and promotion; it is key to academic life. Providing a panoramic picture of the changing publishing climate, "Academic Life and the Publishing Landscape "will empower scholars by enabling them to navigate this changing terrain more successfully.
This book provides guidance from a range of contributors who use their own wide expertise in writing and publication to document the challenges faced by scholars at...
Within the Academy, itself a changing and increasingly entrepreneurial entity, publishing is no longer an option; it is the universal currency that...
Consequently, principals struggle to bring about change, to build trust in order to cultivate a transformative leadership agenda, while several aspects of systemic structures and processes emerge as constraints on leadership capacity building.
Consequently, principals struggle to bring about change, to build trust in order to cultivate a transformative leadership agenda, while several aspect...
