This handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to teaching science in secondary school: it is designed to guide student teachers through the transition from graduate scientist to practising science teacher and includes classroom management.
A detailed account of the way history is taught in schools. Drawing on fieldwork in comprehensive schools, and on research studies worldwide, the authors pose fundamental questions about the way teachers teach and learners learn, addressing the realities of classroom history tea…
Why do we teach and learn about the past? How is history taught in schools? What are the influences on the way teachers teach and pupils learn about the past? History is one of the most ideologically disputed of school subjects. Over the past generation, the subject has experien…
Offers a social psychological account of social life in three high schools, combining theoretical analysis with reflective methodology. The emphasis of the book is on how social relations have varying effects on the feeling of ""self"" in young people from different socioeconomi…
