Close encounters of a congenial kind

Close encounters of a congenial kind

• MacBeath, John Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

Cambridge Journal of Education, 41(3), 369-381, 2011

London

Routledge

2011

• E Special Education
  • EG Inclusive Education
• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • ME Teachers' Responsibility, Professionalism & Discipline
• P Social Context of Education
  • PE Law & Education ; Politics & Education

Inclusive Education Education & State Professionalism Teachers National Union of Teachers

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

This paper provides a co-director's and co-author's review of and commentary on research carried out with Maurice Galton over the past decade. Its principal focus is the burden that recent education policies and ascent of a deleterious culture of performativity have inflicted on teachers' professional and domestic lives. It reports on four studies conducted for the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and two books: Teachers under pressure and Re-inventing schools, reforming teaching. The latter offers alarming, if not surprising, insights into the process of national policy-making. It goes on to relate mutual experiences of recent work in Hong Kong and draws attention to Maurice Galton's contributions to education internationally. The keys to this paper, however, are the persistence, perspicacity and Maurice's personal concern for teachers and children, that have enabled the insights and injustices uncovered in these studies to be published.
[Copyright of Roeper Review is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2011.607152]

• English

Journal Articles

• 0305764X

• 10.1080/0305764X.2011.607152

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/40005163

2013-11-16