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Brings together diverse viewpoints and empirical research on the school experience to reveal the concerns, principles, and applications of educational sociology

Product Description: The author presents a general model of teaching which encompasses both social aspects of teaching skills and coping strategies more concerned with survival and self, so, allowing teachers to address the purer problems of teaching, that is how to promote pupil learning of relevant and worthwhile skills and knowledge...read more

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Since the 1992 Education Act inaugurated national arrangements for inspection, schools have operated within an 'inspection climate' which pervades every aspect of school life on a continual basis. The significance of OFSTED inspections cannot be overestimated. They are often the most challenging, searching, uncompromising and stressful events teacher have ever experienced. What effects do they have on teachers and their work, on their self and role, and on school policy and ethos? Drawing on case studies from contrasting primary schools over a three- year period, this book reveals how OFSTED inspections were received within primary schools. It meets the need for detailed, rigorous research into inspections and their effects on teachers.