Research & writing on secondary education is often a specialised treatment of isolated themes. This reader draws together the most significant work of recent years across a whole range of themes to give students & new teachers an overview of some of the most important issues & challenges that faced secondary teachers in the 1990s. It looks at the central players
- the children & the teachers
- at the classrooms in which they work together; at the curriculum, both implicit & overt; & at the wider community & political context of secondary education. Divided into sections to allow easy access to material of interest, the book covers: * learners * teachers * classrooms * curriculum * schools. Throughout, the reader addresses the crucial issues of effectiveness, quality & achievement & how these will influence the work of the secondary teacher in the coming years.