International handbook of teachers and teaching / edited by Bruce J. Biddle, Thomas L. Good, Ivor F. Goodson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Changing World of Teachers / Bruce J. Biddle, Thomas L. Good, Ivor F. Goodson -- Perspectives on the Teaching Career / Michael Huberman, Charles L. Thompson, Steven Weiland -- Becoming a Teacher: Self and the Social Location of Teacher Education / Robert V. Bullough, Jr. -- The Life and Work of Teachers / Ivor F. Goodson -- Teaching as Women's Work / Dee Ann Spencer -- Feminism and the Teacher's Work / Sara Delamont, Amanda Coffey -- Racialisation of Difference and the Cultural Politics of Teaching / Barry Troyna, Fazal Rizvi -- Increasing the Racial and Ethnic Diversity of the U.S. Teaching Force / Ana Maria Villegas -- Towards a Social Understanding of Teachers: Swedish Positions and Experiences / Sverker Lindblad -- Teachers in the Transformation of the School System in German Unification / Christa Handle -- Empowerment of the Powerless Through the Politics of the Apolitical: Teacher Professionalisation in Hong Kong / Kai-Ming Cheng, Suk-Ying Wong -- Teacher Unions and Teacher Professionalism in the U.S.: Reconsidering a Familiar Dichotomy / Nina Bascia -- Coping with Reform: The Intermix of Teacher Morale, Teacher Burnout, and Teacher Accountability / Anthony Gary Dworkin -- Recent Research on the Role of the Teacher / Bruce J. Biddle -- Research on Teacher Leadership: Assessing the State of the Art / Mark A. Smylie -- Policy, Productivity, and Teacher Evaluation / Ernest R. House, Stephen D. Laplan -- Restructuring Teachers' Labor: 'Troubling' Post-Fordism / Susan L. Robertson.

"Recent years have generated a huge increase in the number of research and scholarly works concerned with teachers and teaching, and this effort has generated new and important insights that are crucial for understanding education today. This handbook provides a host of chapters, written by leading authorities, that review both the major traditions of work and the newest perspectives, concepts, insights, and research-based knowledge concerned with teachers and teaching. Many of the chapters discuss developments that are international in scope, but coverage is also provided for education in a number of specific countries. Many chapters also review contemporary problems faced by educators and the dangers posed by recent, politically-inspired attempts to `reform' schools and school systems. The Handbook provides an invaluable resource for scholars, teacher-educators, graduate students, and all thoughtful persons concerned with the best thinking about teachers and teaching, current problems, and the future of education."--Publisher description.

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