Curriculum or Craftsmanship: Elementary School Teachers in a Bureaucratic System

by Harry L. Gracey

Sociologist Harry L. Gracey spent two years studying an East-Coast school system, which he calls "Brookview," and determined that the bureaucratic social structure of schools can have a profound and irreversibly negative effect on the creativity of teachers. This volume tells the story of the "Wilbur Wright" elementary school in Brookview. It examines the relationship between the educational institution as a bureaucracy and the goals of the two main...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226305953
• ISBN13: 9780226305950
• Release Date: July 1972
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"