Testing Teachers: The Effects of Inspections on Primary Teachers - Hardcover

Jeffrey, Bob; Woods, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750707879 ISBN 13: 9780750707879

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

Since the 1992 Education Act inaugurated national arrangements for inspection, schools have operated within an 'inspection climate' which pervades every aspect of school life on a continual basis. The significance of OFSTED inspections cannot be overestimated. They are often the most challenging, searching, uncompromising and stressful events teacher have ever experienced. What effects do they have on teachers and their work, on their self and role, and on school policy and ethos? Drawing on case studies from contrasting primary schools over a three- year period, this book reveals how OFSTED inspections were received within primary schools. It meets the need for detailed, rigorous research into inspections and their effects on teachers.

About this title

About the Author

Bob Jeffrey is Research Fellow at the Open University and has published research, together with Peter Woods, on teacher creativity, primary teacher discourses on work, pupils' perspectives of creative learning and the restructuring of primary teachers' work. Peter Woods is Professor of Education at the Open University. He has written extensively in the areas of teacher and pupil interaction, teacher creativity, and the methodology of ethnographic research.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750707879
• ISBN 13: 9780750707879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264