Researching School Experience: Explorations of Teaching and Learning - Softcover

Hammersley, Martyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750709146 ISBN 13: 9780750709149

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

There is a tendency in much educational thinking to view pupils in passive terms, as the material on which schools operate. This damaging view is challenged here. Significant recent research shows the effects of changing educational conditions on the experience of teaching and learning in schools. By redressing the balance and acknowledging the affective side of pupils and their learning, this book shows that improved understanding leads to improved teaching. Contributions from Stephen Ball, Martyn Descombe, Ann Filer, Andy Hargreaves, Bob Jeffrey, Geoff Troman, Andrew Pollard and Peter Woods.

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Product Description:

In this text, the author argues there is a tendency in much educational thinking to view pupils in passive terms, as the material on which schools operate. This damaging view is challenged here. Significant research shows the effects of changing eductional conditions on the experience of teaching and learning in schools. By redressing the balance and acknowledging the affective side of pupils and their learning, this book shows that improved understanding leads to improved teaching.

About the Author:

Martyn Hammersley is Professor of Educational and Social Research, School of Education, The Open University. His main substantive area of research is teachers' and pupils' perspectives, and the process of classroom interaction. However, in recent years most of his work has been concerned with methodological issues arising from social science research.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0750709146
• ISBN 13: 9780750709149
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232