1st Edition
Testing Teachers The Effects of Inspections on Primary Teachers
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since the 1992 Education Act inaugurated national arrangements for inspection, schools have operated within an 'inspection climate' which pervades every aspect of school life on a continual basis. The significance of OFSTED inspections cannot be overestimated. They are often the most challenging, searching, uncompromising and stressful events teacher have ever experienced. What effects do they... Read more
Introduction; Notes from the Field (1): Inspection Week at Lowstate; Chapter 1 Bridging the Gap: The Inspectors’ Perspective; Notes from the Field (2): Monday Early Encounters; Chapter 2 A Conflict of Values: The Teachers’ Perspective; Notes from the Field (3): Tuesday Aclimatization Day; Chapter 3 The Colonization of Teachers’ Lives, Selves and Work; Notes from the Field (4): Wednesday The Longest Day Chapter 4 Feeling Deprofessionalized: The Social Construction of Teacher Emotions; Notes from the Field (5): Thursday Last Performance; Chapter 5 Coping with Ofsted Inspections; Notes from the Field (6): Friday Celebration and Review
Biography
Bob Jeffrey is Research Fellow at the Open University and has published research, together with Peter Woods, on teacher creativity, primary teacher discourses on work, pupils' perspectives of creative learning and the restructuring of primary teachers' work. Peter Woods is Professor of Education at the Open University. He has written extensively in the areas of teacher and pupil interaction, teacher creativity, and the methodology of ethnographic research.
