11th Grade English Teachers
A01=Leslie Santee Siskin
academic department boundaries in schools
Author_Leslie Santee Siskin
Category=JN
Category=JNK
Category=JNLC
Chapters Provide Background Information
comprehensive
Departmental Boundaries
departmental cultures
District Science Coordinator
educational organisational theory
English Wing
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high
Highlander High School
math
Math Department
Math Teacher
Modern High School
Modern Languages
National Teacher Examination
Nice Group
O-level Exams
oak
Peer Observation Program
Philadelphia's Central High School
Pre-algebra Class
Professional Development
Red Schoolhouse
Research For Better Schools
school micro-politics
science
Science Teachers
secondary education structure
social
Social Studies Department
Social Studies Teacher
sodal
Stanford Researcher
studies
subject group dynamics
Subject Specific Nature
teacher
teacher professional identity
valley
Violate
Product details
- ISBN 9780750702782
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Feb 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This study examines academic departments as a context for teaching in the secondary school. lt explores why teachers find departments to be crucial to the high school setting. In all three schools studied and in all four subjects English, Maths, Science and Social Science teachers - even those who felt isolated in their classrooms - located their sense of professional identity, practice and community in their departments. Departments are seen as boundaries for dividing the school; centres of social interaction; a micro political decision-making forum; as a subject knowledge category. Those concerns are important at this time as various attacks are being made on school structures and subject and administration fragmentation - in these cases subjects are seen as obstacles to change. To subject groups they are viewed as potential vehicles to carry and confirm the message.
