Teachers and crisis : urban school reform and teachers' work culture
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Bibliographic Information
Teachers and crisis : urban school reform and teachers' work culture
（Critical social thought / series editor, Michael W. Apple）
Routledge, 1992
- : pbk
Available at 19 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-276) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780415902694
Description
The author uses an ethnographic study of teacher resistance to a state-sponsored "basic skills" reform movement in the United States to look at some fundamental issues of education and social justice. He shows how the cry of "back to basics", taken up by education pundits on both left and right in many parts of the English-speaking world, has become a smoke screen for less acceptable developments such as the whittling away of teacher autonomy, teaching to the test, and the assumption that children from disadvantaged areas should be taught low-level functional skills rather than the higher order thinking which might enable them to clmb the socio-economic ladder. This book raises important questions about the role of public education in a post-industrial society and the inter-relationship of class, gender and race in power relations in education. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in the field of sociology of education.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415902700
Description
This text examines topics such as: crisis tendencies in urban education; teachers' work culture in sociohistorical perspective; teachers and basic skills restructuring in midstate; teachers and basic skills restructuring in urbanville; and "Classroom Management" in the basic skills era.
Table of Contents
- Crisis tendencies in urban education
- teachers and crisis - teachers' work culture in sociohistorical perspective
- teachers and basic skills restructuring in midstate
- teachers and basic skills restructuring in urbanville
- role formalization and "Playing the Game" in urbanville schools
- "Classroom Management" in the basic skills era
- beyond the crisis in urban schooling.
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