Is a career as a professor the right choice for you? If you are a graduate student, how can you clear the hurdles successfully and position yourself for academic employment? What's the best way to prepare for a job interview, and how can you maximize your chances of landing a jo…
"Is a career as a professor the right choice? With a perpetually tight job market in the traditional academic fields, the path to an academic career for many aspiting scholars might become a frustrating one. Where can they turn for good, frank answers to their questions? Here, t…
Teacher development and educational change
Teacher development has come under close scrutiny through which it has become clear that previous assumptions about linking staff development and effective changes confined to specific innovations were too limited. This collection traces the link between teacher development and …
"The Teachers of Stalinism: Policy, Practice, and Power in Soviet Schools of the 1930s examines Soviet primary and secondary teachers in a period of educational expansion, social transformation, and political repression. This book focuses on the professional status, classroom pr…
This book provides an intimate view of how feminist teachers are revolutionizing higher education. Drawing on in-depth interviews and on-site observations, and using the actual words of students and teachers, the authors take the reader into the classrooms of seventeen feminist …
This book provides an intimate view of how feminist teachers are revolutionizing higher education. Drawing on in-depth interviews and on-site observations, and using the actual words of students and teachers, the authors take the reader into the classrooms of seventeen feminist …
"Teachers' Learning: Stories of Science Education is aimed at science educators who wish for a deeper understanding of how teachers learn to teach science and the role of stories in reporting science education research. It is fascinating look at the knowledge teachers have and u…