| A Class Act: Changing Teachers Work, the State, and Globalisation Contributor(s): Robertson, Susan (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0815335784 ISBN-13: 9780815335788 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $59.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2000 Annotation: This volume discusses changes in views and attitudes about the work of teachers and how these sociological views and attitudes have asserted themselves in the last decade. The book is organized in three sections. The first lays a theoretical framework by addressing the notion of class and how it affects views of teachers' work. The second section puts the first section's theory into practice through an illustrative analysis of teachers' lives in America and in England. The final section focuses on the changes that have affected teachers' work in the 1990's and world over. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Aims & Objectives - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 306.43 |
| LCCN: 00022491 |
| Series: Garland Reference Library of Social Science |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.68 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book offers an original and challenging theoretical and empirical approach to mapping the changing nature of teachers' work historically and in the contemporary period. It is an attempt to understand how and in what ways teachers' work has changed following the demise of the post-war settlement and the imminent collapse of teachers' project of professionalism secured through solidaristic strategies such as unionism. Dr. Robertson argues that in order to understand these issues, a more rigorous set of conceptual tools around social class, occupational power and worker control is needed. The first two sections of the book set out to address that problem. The final section elaborates on the changing contexts and conditions for contemporary teachers more generally, and argues that structural and ideological changes within educational provision have led to differing capacities in the realization of class assets. |