Teachers in the Middle; Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent Years of Schooling

by Peter McInerney and John Smyth

There is a profound and deepening crisis afflicting secondary schools in most parts of the world - but at its essence it is a crisis of a very different kind from the one portrayed by the media, the business community, politicians, and policy makers. Just what constitutes the crisis is highly problematic. What is being constructed for us through a concerted conservative assault and a new authoritarianism is one of failure by young people, their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820474592
• ISBN13: 9780820474595
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"