Changing Teachers, Changing Times [[electronic resource] ] : Teachers' Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789796703321
• Autore: Hargreaves Andy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2001
• ISBN: 1-283-20597-1; 9786613205971; 1-4411-4628-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Collana: Teacher Development
• Disciplina: 371.1
• Soggetti: Teachers; Teaching -- Social aspects; Teaching; Teachers - Attitudes; Teachers - Social aspects; Education; Social Sciences; Theory & Practice of Education
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Series Editor's Introduction; Preface and Acknowledgements; PART ONE CHANGE; 1 Devices and Desires The Process of Change; 2 The Lalaise of Modernity The Pretext for Change; 3 Postmodernity or Postmodernism? The Discourse of Change; 4 Postmodern Paradoxes The Context of Change; PART TWO TIME AND WORK; 5 Time Quality or Quantity? The Faustian Bargain; 6 Intensification Teachers' Work - Better or Worse?; 7 Guilt Exploring the Emotions of Teaching; PART THREE CULTURE; 8 Individualism and Individuality Understanding the Teacher Culture; 9 Collaboration and Contrived Collegiality Cup of Comfort or Poisoned Chalice?10 The Balkanization of Teaching Collaboration That Divides; 11 Restructuring Beyond Collaboration; Name Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching ; and teachers' work to change with them. This is the challenge which Andy Hargreaves sets out in his book on teachers' work and culture in the postmodern world. Drawing on his current research with teachers at all levels, Hargreaves shows through their own vivid words what teaching is really like, how it is already changing, and why. He argues that the structures and cultures of teaching need to change even more if teachers are not to be trapped by guilt, pressed by time and overburdened by decisions imposed upon them. Pr