Teaching in Common: Challenges to Joint Work in Classrooms and Schools

By Anne Dipardo

Despite frequent calls for increased collaboration among teachers, we know very little about what this means for real educators in real schools. Teaching In Common offers vivid, richly textured portraits of four collaborations, tracing complex connections across school culture, pedagogic innovation, and teachers' lived experience. The text discusses the demands of the public school workplace and the challenges and benefits of collaboration, providing valuable insights for preparing the next generation of teachers for collaborative activity. The absorbing portraits of teachers will help practitioners to contemplate this recent school-reform push as it relates to other issues and pressures in their professional lives. DiPardo explores the kinds of conditions that best support collaboration and proposes new ways of thinking about the relationship between teachers' joint work and school culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807737631
• ISBN13: 9780807737637
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"