Teachers' Professional Lives

by Goodson; Ivor F.

• ISBN13: 9780750705141
• ISBN10: 0750705140
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This text provides a discussion of the meaning of teacher professionalism and how it can be improved. Distinguishing between six different models of meaning of professionalism, it takes an international perspective in looking at the realities behind the working lives of teachers.

Table of Contents

Editorial Preface	p. vii
Teachers' Professional Lives: Aspirations and Actualities	p. 1
Teachers' Work, Restructuring and Postfordism: Constructing the New 'Professionalism'	p. 28
Teacher Professionalism and Curriculum Control	p. 56
Are Professional Teachers a Good Thing?	p. 75
References	p. 86
Historical Notes on the Barriers to the Professionalization of American Teachers: The Influence of Markets and Patriarchy	p. 88
Using Drawings to Interrogate Professional Identity and the Popular Culture of Teaching	p. 109
Teacher Professionalism in Local School Contexts	p. 127
Student Teachers' Lay Theories: Implications for Professional Development	p. 154
Women as Teachers: Teachers as Women	p. 178
Knowledge, Teacher Development and Change	p. 187
Development and Disenchantment in the Professional Lives of Headteachers	p. 205
Notes on Contributors	p. 228
Index	p. 232
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