Product Description

This reader draws together the most imortant work of recent years across the whole range of themes to give students and new teachers an overview of the most important issues and challenges facing secondary school teachers in the 1990's.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #147563 in Books
• Published on: 1993-12-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

From the Back Cover

Research and writing on secondary education is often a specialised treatment of isolated themes. This reader draws together the most significant work of recent years across a whole range of themes to give students and new teachers an overview of some of the most important issues and challenges that faced secondary teachers in the 1990s.

It looks at the central players - the children and the teachers - at the classrooms in which they work together; at the curriculum, both implicit and overt; and at the wider community and political context of secondary education. Divided into sections to allow easy access to material of interest, the book covers:

* learners
* teachers
* classrooms
* curriculum
* schools.

Throughout, the reader addresses the crucial issues of effectiveness, quality and achievement and how these will influence the work of the secondary teacher in the coming years.

Customer Reviews

An invaluable guide
I found this book to be very informative, the contrasts betwwen BEd and PGCE students did mean that I could focus my attentions to the areas where, statisically, I would be weak. I also found that this was a book where I could dip into, to find a particular topic that was pertinent to my areas of development. However I did find that there other books that were easier to read and less 'wordy' for instance - "Learning to Teach - Gill Nicholls"