Product Description: The latest edition of this best-selling textbook by Miles and Huberman not only is considerably expanded in content, but is now available in paperback. Bringing the art of qualitative analysis up-to-date, this edition adds hundreds of new techniques, ideas and references developed in the past decade...read more

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. In this study of 160 secondary school teachers there are interviews with individuals as well as findings that apply to hundreds of practitioners. The book moves from particulars to universals, in an attempt to depict the nature of the teaching career and its effects on teachers. (view table of contents)