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This book is part of a new international series on teacher development and its relationship to teaching quality and school improvement, an area of increasing importance in educational policy and practice. Teacher development has become a focal point for motivation and commitment amongst both new and experienced teachers.
This book is part of a new international series on teacher development and its relationship to teaching quality and school improvement - an area of increasing importance in educational policy and practice. Teacher development has become a focal point for motivation and commitment amongst both new and experienced teachers. The books in the series look at innovative research and try to relate it meaningfully to practice.
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Teachers Matter offers the most definitive portrait of teachers’ lives and work to date. At a time when teaching standards are high on the political and social agenda, the quality and commitment of teaching staff is seen as paramount and they are viewed as pivotal to the economic and social well being of society. But: What are the influences that help or hinder teachers’ commitment? Is there an association between commitment and pupil attainment? Why are teachers’ identities important? What are teachers’ needs and concerns in different professional life phases? Does school context count? Based on a DfES funded study of 300 teachers in 100 primary and secondary schools in England, the...
Miles and Huberman's seminal text has helped thousands of graduate students and researchers find meaning from their qualitative data. New to this edition is the integration of qualitative analysis software, coverage of new approaches of inquiry, inclusion of mixed methods, and examples from a wider range of social science disciplines.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, in 1923, this book aims at shedding light on the archives of some of the key thinkers of Critical Theory of Society, also well known as “Frankfurt School”. To pay homage to this current of thought, this contributed volume aims to make the archives speak for themselves, to show the public the quantity of unpublished material still existing by the authors of the Critical Theory which are now in funds in different parts of the world (in Germany, in Italy, or in the United States), and to show that Critical Theory remains alive 100 years after its inception. The volume starts...
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