Changing Teachers' Work / Edition 1

by Gill Helsby, Helsby

Overview

Growing political, economic and social uncertainties throughout the world have prompted many governments to reform their national education systems. This book looks at the effects of these reforms and finds that, far from improving education, they have often made it more difficult for teachers to do a good job in the classroom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335199389
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date:	05/01/1999
Series:	Changing Education Series
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

Editorial Reviews

As part of a series on challenges to education reform, Helsby (Lancaster U., UK) scrutinizes how changing frameworks for teachers' work have impacted what and how they teach, their professional development and patterns of association, as well as school organization, management, and accountability. Though her analysis focuses on a major secondary schools curriculum reform initiative in England and Wales begun in 1983, it has wider resonance as education restructuring parallels a global "new work order." Distributed in the US by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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