1st Edition
Realms Of Knowledge Academic Departments In Secondary Schools
By Leslie Santee Siskin
Copyright 1994
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study examines academic departments as a context for teaching in the secondary school. lt explores why teachers find departments to be crucial to the high school setting. In all three schools studied and in all four subjects English, Maths, Science and Social Science teachers - even those who felt isolated in their classrooms - located their sense of professional identity, practice and... Read more
The Invisibility of Departments; Historical Background - From Realm to Realms; The Departmental Plan; The New Organisation of the High School; Subject Divisions Specialist Divisions; The Study; Context and Design of the Study; The Schools; Oak Valley High School; Rancho High School; Highlander High School; Boundaries and Barriers; Boundary Strengths; Breaking Barriers at Rancho; Drawing Boundaries - Communication Cliques; Social Worlds Looking for Community; The Individuals Involved; Departments as Social Worlds Different Kinds of Community; Power and Politics; Norms of Silence and Political Language; Privileged Position of Academic Subjects; Relative Privilege Among Academic Subejcts; Micro- politics Inside Departments; How the Subject Matters Subject Cultures; Subject Differences; Social Studies; English; Math; Science; Underlining Differences; Departmental Differences; implications for Policy.
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Siskin, Leslie Santee
