1st Edition

Pupil Strategies (RLE Edu L) Explorations in the Sociology of the School

Edited By Peter Woods Copyright 1980
224 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

What do pupils actually do in school? There are remarkably few studies that take the pupils’ perspective and reconstruct experience from their point of view within the context of their own cultures and careers. This volume brings together a number of research studies on various aspects of how pupils cope with schools. The theoretical papers consider amongst other issues a developmental model... Read more

Acknowledgements. Introduction Peter Woods. 1. The Development of Pupil Strategies Peter Woods. 2. Conformist Pupils? Martyn Hammersley and Glenn Turner. 3. Pupil Strategies and the Open Classroom Martyn Denscombe. 4. Routes to Right Answers: On Pupils’ Strategies for Answering Teachers’ Questions Margaret MacLure and Peter French. 5. Deviant Labelling in School: The Pupils’ Perspective Cathy Bird. 6. School Girls’ Peer Groups Robert J Meyenn. 7. Initial Encounters in the Classroom and the Process of Establishment Stephen J Ball. 8. Synthesis and the Study of Strategies: A Project for the Sociological Imagination Andy Hargreaves. 9. On Interactionist Empiricism Martyn Hammersley. List of contributors. Subject Index. Author Index.

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