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1. Education and the City

   Theory, History and Contemporary Practice

   Edited by Gerald Grace

   City schools, especially those attended by working class and ethnic minority pupils are teh catalysts of many significant issues in educational debate and policy making. They bring into sharp focus questions to do with class, gender and race relations in education; concepts of equality of...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Role Conflict and the Teacher (RLE Edu N)

   By Gerald Grace

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   Gerald Grace here explores the concept of role conflict and the current theorizing about the problems of the teacher’s role. He investigates four potential problem areas – role diffuseness, role vulnerability, role commitment versus career orientation, and value conflict – in a sample of one...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
3. Teachers, Ideology and Control (RLE Edu N)

   By Gerald Grace

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   Teachers of the urban working class, especially in inner city areas, have always been regarded as strategic agents in processes of social and cultural formation. In the Victorian era, seen as ‘The Teachers of the People’, ‘Pioneers of Civilization’ and ‘Preachers of Culture’, their role in gentling...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
4. Teachers: The Culture and Politics of Work (RLE Edu N)

   Edited by Martin Lawn, Gerald Grace

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This book examines the experience and politics of teachers’ work, questions of teacher appraisal, and the struggles of the teachers’ action of 1984-86. A major section of the book charts the changing power relations between organized teachers and the State in Britain from 1900 to the late 1980s....

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
5. Catholic Schools

   Mission, Markets, and Morality

   By Gerald Grace

   In this ground-breaking book, Gerald Grace addresses the dilemmas facing Catholic education in an increasingly secular and consumer-driven culture. The book combines an original theoretical framework with research drawn from interviews with sixty Catholic secondary head teachers from deprived urban...

   Published March 20th 2002 by Routledge
6. School Leadership

   Beyond Education Management

   By Professor Gerald Grace, Gerald Grace

   This text provides a study of the education policy scholarship of leadership. It examines the ways in which concepts of educational leadership and management have evolved historically and culturally, reviewing contemporary debates about the nature of school leadership.; The question of what school...

   Published March 22nd 1995 by Routledge