Product Description: This study examines academic departments as a context for teaching in the secondary school. lt explores why teachers find departments to be crucial to the high school setting. In all three schools studied and in all four subjects English, Maths, Science and Social Science teachers - even those who felt isolated in their classrooms - located their sense of professional identity, practice and community in their departments...read more

Product Description: This text brings together theoretical and empirical explorations of the subject department and addresses how these divisions affect the experiences of teachers and students in our schools. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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