{"product_id":"teachers-and-academic-partners-in-urban-schools-9781138826267","title":"Teachers and Academic Partners in Urban Schools","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e''Showing how critical thinking and local democracy can be a spur to very real educational development within schools that are facing severe challenges, this book provides us with one very valuable contemporary resource of hope.'' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIan Menter, Professor of Teacher Education, University of Oxford, UK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTeachers and Academic Partners in Urban Schools\u003c\/em\u003e identifies and addresses a major problem for practitioners  teachers, student teachers and teacher educators  working in urban schools burdened by highly restrictive teaching methods and pressures to meet unrealistic benchmarks set by government. In this book, Lori Beckett investigates how to negotiate these tensions and challenges and offers an account of how to elevate practitioners' professional voice on quality teaching along more democratic lines. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book addresses key issues for teachers in urban schools, such as: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efractures in teachers' professional communities; \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eimpa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eShowing how critical thinking and local democracy can be a spur to very real educational development within schools that are facing severe challenges, this book provides us with one very valuable contemporary resource of hope\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \u003cstrong\u003e Ian Menter, Professor of Teacher Education, University of Oxford, UK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\" In 'Teachers and Academic Partners in Urban Schools', Lori Beckett does what many insiders feel unable to do and, in raising her ‘head above the parapet’, acts as a powerful antidote to the current anti-intellectual and unhealthy obsessions with crude accountability measures and short term fixes pervading schooling in England in the twenty-first century [...] Although firmly grounded in a particular English context, this book does have considerable resonance around the world, as countries, especially Anglophone ones, are tempted to policy borrow from England.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJane McNicholl, Journal of Education for Teaching\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The book is a clarion call for a radically different understanding of educational reform. Beckett delivers a forensic anaylsis of the local ramifications of performativity regimes in high poverty schools across 10 years, in the particular context of school-university partnerships in one northern English city.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eSusanne Gannon, Discourses: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Editor’s Introduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher Day and Ann Lieberman\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIan Menter\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA ‘choreography of policy conflict’ in urban schools\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e‘Local’ solutions to ‘failing’ schools\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCritical democratic work \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcademic partners \u0026amp; the ‘university project’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaking common cause\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTeachers’ voice\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProfessional control over schooling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407232672087,"sku":"9781138826267","price":42.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138826267.jpg?v=1730498658","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/teachers-and-academic-partners-in-urban-schools-9781138826267","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}