Product Description: What is the optimal way to define educational practice?Is educational practice patterned and, if so, what are its social determinants?What is the precise relationship between educational practice and students' attainment?Can government reforms to teacher education succeed in transforming educational practice and promoting the attainment of less privileged students?How can variations in educational practice be best theorised?In exploring answers to these questions, Nigel Kettley seeks to develop a holistic and inclusive conceptual, empirical and theoretical approach to educational practice...read more