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This volume explores the contemporary situation of teachers' careers and teachers' lives in the context of falling roles, educational cuts and government demands for fundamental change in educational processes.

Table of Contents
Introduction; Understanding Teachers: Concepts and Contexts; The Life Cycle of the Teacher; Critical Incidents in the Classroom: Identities, Choices and Careers; Teacher Status Panic: Moving Up the Down Escalator; ‘The Tender Trap?’ Commitment and Consciousness in Entrants to Teaching; Reference Groups in Primary Teaching: Talking, Listening and Identity; Paints, Pots or Promotion: Art Teachers’ Attitudes Towards their Careers; Concord Sixth Form College: The Possibility of Schooling Without Conflict; Institutional Change and Career Histories in a Comprehensive School; Educational Innovators: A Decade and a Half Later; Pupils, Teachers’ Careers and Schooling: An Empirical Study

Teachers' Lives And Careers

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: 24/09/1985
      ISBN13: 9781850000297, 978-1850000297
      ISBN10: 1850000298
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume explores the contemporary situation of teachers' careers and teachers' lives in the context of falling roles, educational cuts and government demands for fundamental change in educational processes.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; Understanding Teachers: Concepts and Contexts; The Life Cycle of the Teacher; Critical Incidents in the Classroom: Identities, Choices and Careers; Teacher Status Panic: Moving Up the Down Escalator; ‘The Tender Trap?’ Commitment and Consciousness in Entrants to Teaching; Reference Groups in Primary Teaching: Talking, Listening and Identity; Paints, Pots or Promotion: Art Teachers’ Attitudes Towards their Careers; Concord Sixth Form College: The Possibility of Schooling Without Conflict; Institutional Change and Career Histories in a Comprehensive School; Educational Innovators: A Decade and a Half Later; Pupils, Teachers’ Careers and Schooling: An Empirical Study

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