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Teaching Quality: a sociological analysisFootnote1

Pages 211-231 | Published online: 29 Sep 2006

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  • Blenkin , G. M. and Kelly , A. V. 1981 . The Primary Curriculum , London : Harper and Row . See, for example, Bennett, N. (1976) Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress (Open Books, London); Galton, M., Simon, B. and Croll, P. (1980) Inside the Primary Classroom (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London); Gracey, H. (1975) Curriculum or Craftmanship: Elementary Teachers in a Bureaucratic System (University of Chicago Press, Chicago); Barnes, D., and Shemilt, D. (1974) Transmission and interpretation. Educational Review, 26 (3); Westbury, I. (1973) Conventional classrooms, open classrooms and the technology of teaching. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 5 (2); Hammersley, M. (1976) The mobilisation of pupil attention. In Hammersley, M. and Woods, P., The Process of Schooling (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London); and Blenkin, G. M. and
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  • See, for instance, the experimentally based work of David Berliner, which, while not so exclusively concerned with didactic teaching, nonetheless focuses on subjects in the intellectual‐cognitive, rather than the practical or affective domains. For instance, Berliner, D. C. and Carter, K. J. (1986) Differences in processing classroom information by expert and novice teachers. Paper presented to the Third International Conference of the International Study Association of Teacher Thinking, Leuven, Belgium, 14‐17 October; and Berliner, D. (1987) Ways of thinking about students and classrooms by more and less experienced teachers. In Calderhead (see note 27).
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  • This they have done in a series of surveys of the effects of local authority expenditure policies on the education service in England and Wales
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  • At the time of writing, Hammersley and Scarth are analysing their data with respect to some of these factorsxy
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  • Hargreaves , A. 1984 . Experience counts; theory doesn't: how teachers talk about their work . Sociology of Education , 57 October I have developed this point In

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