ABSTRACT
This study illuminates how the everyday activity of teachers raises profound economic, cultural, ethical, political and research issues, and provides a new and fruitful way of examining the practice of teaching. The first part of the book offers a detailed description of sensitively recorded school situations, arising from work carried out in a number of British primary schools. From the analysis of their research the authors constructed a theoretical perspective for looking at schooling in the form of sixteen ‘dilemmas’; the second half of the book is concerned with this perspective, and shows how the dilemmas constitute a language for looking at everyday schooling and relating it to more general political, social and cultural issues. The book thus spans the gap in educational thinking between work with a firm empirical base and specifically theoretical studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|36 pages
Controversies and Context
part 2|70 pages
The Schools
part 3|69 pages
Towards a Theory and Language of Schooling
part 4|52 pages
Interpretations of the Schools
part 5|47 pages
Engaging in Critical Inquiry