Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
ISBN:
9789460912160
Series Statement:
Studies in Professional Life and Work 3
Content:
Preliminary Material /Ivor. F. Goodson and Christopher J. Anstead -- Introduction: The Case History of a Case Study /Ivor. F. Goodson and Christopher J. Anstead -- Behind the Classroom Door /Ivor. F. Goodson and Christopher J. Anstead -- The Origins of Technical Education in London: Context, Concerns and Curriculum, 1910–1915 /Ivor. F. Goodson and Christopher J. Anstead -- F.W Merchant and Technical Classes in London /Ivor. F. Goodson and Christopher J. Anstead -- On Explaining Curriculum Change: H.B. Beal, Organizational Categories and the Rhetoric of Justification /Ivor. F. Goodson and Christopher J. Anstead -- Subject Status and Curriculum Change /Ivor. F. Goodson and Christopher J. Anstead -- Origins and Destinations /Ivor. F. Goodson and Christopher J. Anstead -- Structure and Mediation /Ivor. F. Goodson and Christopher J. Anstead -- “Schooldays are the Happiest Days of Your Life” /Ivor. F. Goodson and Christopher J. Anstead.
Content:
This book presents a multi-faceted approach to a case study of a secondary school, the London Technical and Commercial High School, one of the first vocational secondary schools. The authors make a case for tracing the history of classroom and curriculum, using a variety of ways to examine the history, the institutional structures, and everyday life in the school. A major theme is the importance of viewing teachers and administrators as mediating agencies between government and the “outside world” on one hand, and students on the other, whilst retaining their own personal and career agendas. Other central themes are gender and class
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789460912153
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Through the Schoolhouse Door Leiden Boston : Brill | Sense, 2010
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789460912160
