Teachers: The Culture and Politics of Work (RLE Edu N)

This book examines the experience and politics of teachers' work, questions of teacher appraisal, and the struggles of the teachers' action of 1984-86. A major section of the book charts the changing power relations between organized teachers and the State in Britain from 1900 to the late 1980s. The contributors to this volume write from a variety of perspectives, including conflict theory, socio-historical analysis, feminist analysis, diary-based ethnography, and interview-based research. With its sensitivity to this range of perspectives and its bringing together of the experimental aspects of teaching, as well as its class, gender and political relations, this book is an authoritative source for courses in education, sociology, history and social policy.

Martin Lawn, Gerald Grace

Introduction: Part 1: Recovering History. 1. 'Lady Teachers' and Politics in the United States, 1850-1930 2. Feminists in Teaching: The National Union of Women Teachers, 1920-1940 3. What is the Teacher's Job? Work and Welfare in Elementary Teaching, 1940-1945 Part 2: Working in Contemporary Schools. 4. Being a Feminist Teacher. 5. Pride and Prejudice: Teachers, Class and an Inner-City Infants School. 6. Prisonhouses . Part 3: The Politics of Work. 7. Part of the Union: School Representatives and their Work 8. The Politics of Teacher Appraisal 9. The Teachers' Action, 1984-1986. Part 4: Teachers and the State. 10. Teachers and the State in Britain: A Changing Relation. Index.