228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Teachers' Work is a highly readable, penetrating and often amusing account of the reality of teachers working lives, as relevant to the profession and its future as it was when first published in 1985. Based on the classic Australian study of the schools and homes of the wealthy and powerful and of ordinary wage-earners described in Making the Difference , Teachers' Work draws on extended... Read more
Introduction
PART ONE: TEACHERS' LIVES
1 Sheila Goffman and Margaret Blackall
2 Terry Petersen
3 Angus Barr
4 Rosa Marshall
5 Jack Ryan
PART TWO: TEACHERS' WORK
6 The labour process and division of labour
7 The curriculum
8 Relationships with kids
9 The school as a workplace
PART THREE: TEACHERS' WORLDS
10 Being a teacher
11 Teachers' outlooks
12 Teachers' politics and teachers' power
Notes
Bibliography
Index
PART ONE: TEACHERS' LIVES
1 Sheila Goffman and Margaret Blackall
2 Terry Petersen
3 Angus Barr
4 Rosa Marshall
5 Jack Ryan
PART TWO: TEACHERS' WORK
6 The labour process and division of labour
7 The curriculum
8 Relationships with kids
9 The school as a workplace
PART THREE: TEACHERS' WORLDS
10 Being a teacher
11 Teachers' outlooks
12 Teachers' politics and teachers' power
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
R. W. Connell is Professor of Sociology at Macquarie University and one of Australia's leading social theorists. This book is an outcome of a research project (described in the earlier book, Making the Difference undertaken with D. J. Ashenden, S. Kessler and G. W. Dowsett).
