The following featured chapters explore Professional Life and Work in detail, and can be read in full and/or downloaded as PDFs.
- Chapter: Developing a Conceptual Framework for Understanding
This paper provides a conceptual guide to the conclusions of the professional knowledge project which studied professional knowledge in seven European countries.
more - Chapter: Educational Research as a Public Intellectual
This paper looks at the Laurence Stenhouse lecture given at the British Education Research Association annual conference. It examines the role of the educational researcher as a public intellectual and speculates about the future viability of this model.
more - Chapter: Studying Teachers' Lives - an emergent field of study
This paper defines the emerging field of study of teachers' lives. It is the introduction to a book on this subject which promoted the study of teachers' lives and led to the emergence of a special interest group on studying teachers' lives at AERA.
more - Chapter: Studying Teachers' Lives - problems and possibilities
This paper looks at the growing field of studies of teachers' lives and reviews the potential of life history and life story work in developing a broader conceptualisation of the teacher's life and work.
more - Chapter: Studying the Life of a School
This paper provides an introduction to the book The Life of a School which came out in 2011. The book provides a methodological and procedural guide to studying the life of a school.
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The following publications explore Professional Life and Work throughout:
- Improving Learning through the Lifecourse: Learning Lives
Ths book reports on one of the largest research projects into lifelong learning conducted in recent years. Through 500 in-depth interviews with a cohort of about 120 adults who were followed for three years, the 'Learning Lives' project has built up a detailed understanding of what learning means and does in the lives of adults.
- Teachers' Professional Lives
This book takes the discussion of teacher professionalism off the academic and bureaucratic bandwagon and lodges it firmly within the working lives and realities of teachers themselves. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with teaching, teachers' work, and the struggle for greater professionalism in teaching.