Among School Teachers: Community, Autonomy and Ideology in Teachers' Work

by Joel Westheimer

Exactly what are teacher communities? What are they after? How do they begin? Do they evolve through stages? How alike or different are they from one another? How are such communities built?

It is these important questions that Joel Westheimer turns to in Among Schoolteachers. This is a compelling and thoroughly readable account of two middle schools--one urban and one suburban--that attempt to build communities which will...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807737445
• ISBN13: 9780807737446
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"