Product Description: 'The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them' This is the challenge which Andy Hargreaves sets out in his book on teachers' work and culture in the postmodern world...read more

(view table of contents)

Product Description: In addition to its outstanding analysis of "total teachers" and school culture, this book provides action guidelines for teachers and for principals that are filled with insight that will help school educators take responsibility for reform Pub: 6/96. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Focusing on change and reform in secondary and elementary schools, this book explores the possibilities for better schooling for early adolescents.

Product Description: Why does successful, enduring change beyond a few isolated schools continue to elude us? The fundamental problem, says editor Hargreaves, is that educational change is more complex and controversial than the change literature has recognized...read more

Product Description: In this volume, ten teachers write about time-related frustrations growing out of school reform efforts and how the problems were (or were not) resolved. Each case includes a commentary prepared by school representatives (principals, other teachers) and is preceded by a contextual description...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For many years, education reform has been imposed on teachers in many parts of the world. Overload, burnout, demoralization, poor implementation and a rush for early retirement has been the result. This text discusses the need for positive educational change, with teachers in the vanguard of it, rather than making them its marginalized victims...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

(view table of contents)

The success of school reform measures greatly depends on the support and commitment of teachers. This book examines the realities of educational change from the frontline perspective of reform-minded teachers. It charts the perceptions and experiences of twenty-nine teachers in grades 7 and 8 from four school districts--showing how they grappled with such initiatives as integrated curriculum, common learning standards, and alternative modes of assessment. This book moves beyond the bandwagons of rhetorical change and examines how these changes work in practice for better and for worse. Authors Andy Hargreaves and Lorna Earl focus on how reform proposals have brought new complexities to teaching practice and why major investments of time and support are required if teaching innovations are to become lasting and effective. Most importantly, they highlight the intense emotional demands that school change imposes on teachers, and they outline practical strategies for helping teachers through the difficult transition process--thus ensuring that worthwhile reforms flourish and endure.

(view table of contents)

Product Description: 'A book of polemic and passion, which will challenge school leaders, teachers and policy-makers alike. Amid vivid invective and extensive research about the impoverishing effects of educational standardisation, there gleams Hargreaves' unwavering conviction that teaching is the key agent of change in the knowledge society...read more

Discusses ways to ensure that students and teachers maintain and perpetuate skills and ideas they have been taught so that the length of a leader's influence is maximized.