Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers' Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age

by Andy P. Hargreaves and Andy Hargreaves

Book Overview

International in its empirical and theoretical scope, this book contains a number of new ideas about teaching and addresses many of the recent changes that are occurring in teachers' work. The author... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807733407
• ISBN13: 9780807733400
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Changing Teachers, Changing times...Absolutely....

This work has truly inspired me. Hargreaves begins and ends with the challenging observation that the rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them. For me, in his section on futures, Andy underscores the issues facing education reform in the nineties. Hargreaves stresses that understanding the context,process and consequences of change help us clarify and question the choices we make.From the 'malaise of modernity' questioning the corporate analogies of educational discussion, Hargreaves refers to Robert Merton's theory that cumulative attention to the change process often leads to "goal displacement", through to the chapter titled the Balkanization of Teaching, Hargreaves is always focussed on the teacher's work and culture in the postmodern age.Hargreaves finishes with a quote I have used often, as it resonates so clearly and profoundly for me." Teachers know their work is changing, along with the world in which they perform it. As long as existing structures and cultures are left intact, repsonding to these complex and accelarating changes in isolation will only create more overload, intensifictaion,guilt,uncertainty,cynicism and burnout".