Who Controls Teachers' Work? : Power and Accountability in America's Schools / Richard M. Ingersoll.
2006
LB1775.2 ǂb I555 2003eb
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Who Controls Teachers' Work? : Power and Accountability in America's Schools / Richard M. Ingersoll.
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9780674038950
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2006]
Copyright
©2006
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (366 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674038950 doi
Call Number
LB1775.2 ǂb I555 2003eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
371.144
Summary
Schools are places of learning but they are also workplaces, and teachers are employees. As such, are teachers more akin to professionals or to factory workers in the amount of control they have over their work? And what difference does it make? Drawing on large national surveys as well as wide-ranging interviews with high school teachers and administrators, Richard Ingersoll reveals the shortcomings in the two opposing viewpoints that dominate thought on this subject: that schools are too decentralized and lack adequate control and accountability; and that schools are too centralized, giving teachers too little autonomy. Both views, he shows, overlook one of the most important parts of teachers' work: schools are not simply organizations engineered to deliver academic instruction to students, as measured by test scores; schools and teachers also play a large part in the social and behavioral development of our children. As a result, both views overlook the power of implicit social controls in schools that are virtually invisible to outsiders but keenly felt by insiders. Given these blind spots, this book demonstrates that reforms from either camp begin with inaccurate premises about how schools work and so are bound not only to fail, but to exacerbate the problems they propose to solve.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE DEBATE OVER CONTROL
3 TEACHERS AND DECISION MAKING IN SCHOOLS
4 RULES FOR TEACHERS
5 THE TEACHER IN THE MIDDLE
6 THE EFFECTS OF TEACHER CONTROL
7 CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE DEBATE OVER CONTROL
3 TEACHERS AND DECISION MAKING IN SCHOOLS
4 RULES FOR TEACHERS
5 THE TEACHER IN THE MIDDLE
6 THE EFFECTS OF TEACHER CONTROL
7 CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX