Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers' Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age (Teacher Development S)

✍ Scribed by Andy Hargreaves

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Series: Teacher Development
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. Provocative yet practical, this book is written for teachers and those who work with teachers, and for researchers who want to understand teaching better in the postmodern age. "All who are interested in teachers and teaching can ill afford to ignore this book". Professor Philip W. Jackson, University of Chicago "Hargreaves' description of the collapse of certainty, the crisis of moral purpose and the concomitant struggle to gain clarity in the classroom is brilliant!" Professor Ann Lieberman, Columbia University "A tour de force of linking the macroworld of society with the microworld of everyday teaching. Nobody identifies the deep dilemmas of teaching in the postmodern age better than Andy Hargreaves . . . A must-read for those who want to understand and do something about the future of teaching". Michael Fullan, University of Toronto "There are few contemporary educational thinkers to equal Hargreaves' ability to write in a clear and readable style about complex matters which defy simplistic solutions". Professor John Elliot, University of East Anglia "Andy Hargreaves is one of the most original thinkers and gifted researchers of this generation of educators . . . His analysis of society in uneasy transition is convincing, and his deeply felt care and critical respect for teachers and their work undeniable". Brian J. Caldwe

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Series Editor's Introduction......Page 10
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 14
PART ONE: CHANGE......Page 18
1 Devices and Desires: The Process of Change......Page 20
2 The Malaise of Modernity: The Pretext for Change......Page 39
3 Postmodernity or Postmodernism?: The Discourse of Change......Page 55
4 Postmodern Paradoxes: The Context of Change......Page 64
PART TWO: TIME AND WORK......Page 110
5 Time: Quality or Quantity? The Faustian Bargain......Page 112
6 Intensification: Teachers' Work – Better or Worse?......Page 134
7 Guilt: Exploring the Emotions of Teaching......Page 158
PART THREE: CULTURE......Page 178
8 Individualism and Individuality: Understanding the Teacher Culture......Page 180
9 Collaboration and Contrived Collegiality: Cup of Comfort or Poisoned Chalice?......Page 203
10 The Balkanization of Teaching: Collaboration That Divides......Page 229
11 Restructuring: Beyond Collaboration......Page 258
F......Page 282
M......Page 283
T......Page 284
Z......Page 285
C......Page 286
K......Page 287
S......Page 288
W......Page 289