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11. The Creative School

    A Framework for Success, Quality and Effectiveness

    By Bob Jeffrey, Peter Woods

    This book is about a unique school. It is a school that, despite the increasing pressure put upon it by changes in the curriculum and the organisation of education, has managed to successfully maintain the creative values that have won it international and governmental recognition. Written for...

    Published March 26th 2003 by Routledge
12. Primary Teachers' Stress

    By Geoff Troman, Peter Woods

    The single most cited reason for not choosing teaching as a career is stress, which is also the most common reason for leaving the profession. This book looks at the causes of teacher stress, asks why thousands of teachers (after expensive training) are leaving the profession every year due to...

    Published December 13th 2000 by Routledge
13. Testing Teachers

    The Effects of Inspections on Primary Teachers

    By Bob Jeffrey, Peter Woods

    Since the 1992 Education Act inaugurated national arrangements for inspection, schools have operated within an 'inspection climate' which pervades every aspect of school life on a continual basis. The significance of OFSTED inspections cannot be overestimated. They are often the most challenging,...

    Published July 29th 1998 by Routledge
14. Researching the Art of Teaching

    Ethnography for Educational Use

    By Peter Woods

    This book is a follow-up to Inside Schools. It reviews the position of ethnography in educational research in the light of current issues and of the author's own research over the past ten years. Starting from an analysis of teaching as science and as art, Peter Woods goes on to review the general...

    Published November 13th 1996 by Routledge
15. Contemporary Issues in Teaching and Learning

    Edited by Peter Woods

    Since the 1988 Education Reform Act, our education system has undergone dramatic changes and this in turn has raised a number of controversial issues and questions. This reader brings together key articles, both recently published and specially commissioned, which address these issues and place...

    Published December 20th 1995 by Routledge
16. Gender and Ethnicity in Schools

    Ethnographic Accounts

    Edited by Martyn Hammersley, Peter Woods

    A serious but highly accessible look at recent work on the issues of gender and race. Gender and Ethnicity in Schools raises crucial educational and political issues, paying particular attention to the pupils' experience of school....

    Published January 6th 1993 by Routledge
17. The Happiest Days?

    How Pupils Cope With Schools

    By Peter Woods

    This book examines pupils' experience of school from their own perspectives, showing a range of responses involving both pain and pleasure. It brings together a wide range of material to evoke pupil realities, to describe pupil cultures, and to consider the meanings of activities....

    Published August 12th 1990 by Routledge
18. The Happiest Days?

    How Pupils Cope With Schools

    By Peter Woods The Open University.

    Published August 12th 1990 by Routledge
19. Inside Schools

    Ethnography in Schools

    By Peter Woods

    Ethnography has much to offer teachers, especially at a time of growing interest in the `teacher-reseacher' and in `action' and `collaborative' research....

    Published July 9th 1986 by Routledge