Introduction The Subject Department: Continuities and Critiques

Leslie Santee Siskin

Judith Warren Little

Subject Divisions

Leslie Santee Siskin

Work Units in Organizations: Ransacking the Literature

W. Richard Scott

Randi C. Cohen

Boundaries of Teachers' Professional Communities in U. S. High Schools: Power and Precariousness of the Subject Department

Joan E. Talbert

Revisiting Subject Disciplines as The Opportunity For Group Action: A Measured Critique of Subject Subcultures

Stephen J. Ball

Colin Lacey

The Strong Department: Building the Department as Learning community

Don Hill

The Balkanization of Secondary School Teaching

Andy Hargreaves

Robert Macmillan

Subject Affiliation in High Schools That Restructure

Judith Warren Little

Index

About the Editors and The Contributors