Routledge Library Editions: Education 2011 Online Catalogue

Schools, Teachers and Teaching (RLE Edu N)

Edited by Len Barton, Stephen Walker

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This volume considers how various sociological approaches to the exploration of the conditions of teachers’ might be co-ordinated so as to produce a more penetrating and reliable understanding of the main dimensions of teachers’ work. Three dimensions are selected for special attention: historical,...

Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

Teacher Education in Plural Societies (RLE Edu N)

An International Review

Edited by Maurice Craft

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

The educational implications of cultural pluralism attracted a good deal of attention in Western societies in the 1970s and 1980s, on the grounds of equality and human rights, maximising national talent, and maintaining social cohesion. Maurice Craft and the international contributors to this book...

Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

Research on Teacher Thinking (RLE Edu N)

Understanding Professional Development

By James Calderhead, Pam Denicolo, Christopher Day

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This is a companion volume to the editors’ Insights into Teachers’ Thinking and Practice (Falmer Press, 1999) and seeks to carry the discussion on further illustrating that there is a continuing intensity of thought, activity and debate on how to conceptualise research on teacher thinking, and thus...

Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

Reconstructing Teacher Education (RLE Edu N)

Edited by John Elliott

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This book maps out a new paradigm of teacher education an, by implication, professional education generally. The book opens with two alternative theories of teacher education and training and explains the concepts and assumptions on which they rest including beliefs about the nature and role of...

Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge

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...

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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...

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Rethinking Teacher Education

Edited by David Hopkins, Ken Reid

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

In recent years there has been a new mood in teacher education. The emphasis is on professional studies, on encouraging trainee teachers to think intelligently about how to tackle problems of the classroom.This book surveys the developments which are taking it further in both Britain and...

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The Socialization of Teachers (RLE Edu N)

By Colin Lacey

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

The change from a student role to a teacher role can be one of the most abrupt and stressful transitions in working life but the process of socialization does not end when the student becomes a fully qualified teacher, as many writers, laymen and sociologists, would have us believe. Colin Lacey...

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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....

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Advances in Teacher Education (RLE Edu N)

Edited by V McClelland, Ved Varma

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

During the 1980s, Britain’s educational system was restructured and redirected. Of the many changes which were made, perhaps the most far-reaching have affected the education of teachers themselves.The contributors to this book have all been centrally involved in the reforming process of teacher...

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Society and the Teacher's Role (RLE Edu N)

By Frank Musgrove, Philip Taylor

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This study describes research into teachers’ role conceptions and uncertainties in different types of school and neighbourhood. The authors examine in particular pupils’ and parents’ conceptions of the teacher’s role, and the conflicts which teachers experience when they are exposed to different...

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Teacher Expectations and Pupil Learning (RLE Edu N)

By Roy Nash

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

In the field of teacher expectations and pupil learning one important psychological truth is that the pupils’ achievement in learning is strongly influenced by the teachers’ expectations of their level of performance, high or low. Roy Nash discusses critically and fully important research in this...

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Changing Patterns of Teacher Education (RLE Edu N)

Edited by Michael Raggett, Malcolm Clarkson

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

The Brighton Conference in 1975 was devoted to an examination of some of the problems arising from the re-organisation of teacher education in a period of economic stringency and widespread cuts in education. The book is divided into four sections. The first considers the structural changes...

Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge