Primary teachers talking
Subtitle: a study of teaching as work
By: Jennifer Nias
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780203330456
Subjects: Elementary school teachers; Psychology; Teachers; Job satisfaction; Interpersonal relations; Enseignants; Satisfaction au travail; EDUCATION; Elementary
Description: An extraordinarily vivid account, based on primary teachers' own words, of what it means ""to feel like a teacher"".
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Teaching and the self; The nature of the teacher's 'self'; Defending the self in teaching; The development of personal concerns; Job satisfaction among primary teachers; Job dissatisfaction among primary teachers; Life in staffrooms: dependence and interdependence; Life in staffrooms: wider horizons; 'Feeling like a teacher'; Conclusion; References; Subject Index; Name Index