Managing Teachers as Professionals in Schools

by Hugh Busher (Editor), Rene Saran (Editor)

Overview

This text examines the challenges facing education managers as the introduction of the National Curriculum, a number of Education Acts and the reorganization of management, have altered the concepts of teacher professionality and their statutory duties.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749417741
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/1995
Series:	Management and Leadership in Education
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Busher, Hugh; Saran, Rene

Table of Contents

Introduction - schools for the future. Part 1 Teachers as professionals in the 1990s: de-skilling a profession, deprofessionalization and the new managerialism; teaching as a profession - the changing legal and social context; changing conceptions of a profession; teacher union perspectives on the management of professionals; teacher professionality and the National Curriculum. Part 2 The institutional focus: leadership and professional development - developing reflective practice; values as central to competent professional practice; developing teachers as extended professionals; working with support staff - relationships between teachers, governors and other staff in schools; managing staff professionally.

Editorial Reviews

A review of student tutoring and mentoring and the strategies needed to recognize and implement its benefits in a variety of educational environments. The 21 contributors from the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa, outline the cases of university students serving as peer tutors, and mentors in primary schools, museums, and prisons. The essays acknowledge the difficulties of instituting mentoring in developing countries, and discuss practical models for setting up "tutoring schemes" which stress administrative and guidance concerns for both the student teacher and learner. Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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