Researching School Experience: Explorations of Teaching and Learning [Paperback]

There is a tendency in much educational thinking to view pupils in passive terms, as the material on which schools operate. This damaging view is challenged here. Significant recent research shows the effects of changing educational conditions on the experience of teaching and learning in schools. By redressing the balance and acknowledging the affective side of pupils and their learning, this book shows that improved understanding leads to improved teaching. Contributions from Stephen Ball, Martyn Descombe, Ann Filer, Andy Hargreaves, Bob Jeffrey, Geoff Troman, Andrew Pollard and Peter Woods.This book brings together material from wide range of studies, mainly qualitative in character, concerned with exploring what actually goes on in learning situations and explores the perspectives of teachers, and students.Martyn Hammersley is Professor of Educational and Social Research, School of Education, The Open University. His main substantive area of research is teachers' and pupils' perspectives, and the process of classroom interaction. However, in recent years most of his work has been concerned with methodological issues arising from social science research.Introduction Martyn Hammersley 1 Primary Heads as Teachers: Educating the School Jennifer Nias 2 Researching Primary Teachers' Work: Examining Theory, Policy and Practice through Interactionist Ethnography Geoff Troman 3 Side-stepping the Substantial Self: The Fragmentation of Primary Teachers' Professionality through Audit Accountability Bob Jeffrey 4 Tales of Fear and Loathing: Teachers' Work and Recent Educational Reform Bethan Marshall and Stephen J. Ball 5 The Psychic Rewards (and Annoyances) of Teaching Andy Hargreaves 6 Understanding Teachers' Lives: The Influence of Parenthood Pat Sikes 7 Representing Teachers Ivor F. Goodson 8 Beyond Reflection: Contingency, Idiosyncrasy and Reflexivity in Initial Teacher Education Alex Moore 9 Learning, Policy and Pupil Career: Issues from a LongitudinalãŠ