ABSTRACT
Teaching consists of multiple forms of understanding and representation. There are biographical, situational, institutional, structural, resource and relational factors that go into the social production of creative teaching. In some instances, where situations of basic conflict prevail, teachers and students negotiate a working consensus - an agreement on work rates and sanctions that secures a modicum of returns, but falls somewhat short of inspired teaching and learning. Teaching requires ends to be created in process, in the 'course of interaction with students rather than preconceived and efficiendy attained'. Students' emotional development through drama, through narrative and story, through relationships, and the general ethos of classroom and school is a matter of prime concern. Most have strong beliefs and values which are deeply involved in their teaching, and through which the requirements of State, parents, governors, and not least, students, have to be mediated.
