Teachers' Career and Promotion Patterns: A Sociological Analysis

by Rupert Maclean

Overview

First published in 1992, this book shows that despite appearances and beliefs to the contrary, teachers go in for career planning just as systematically as the members of any other profession and that the career movement of teachers is patterned not random. It demonstrates that status and rewards matter, but so do teaching locations and conditio

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415790369
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/19/2018
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education , #33
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword Sir William Taylor; 1. Introduction 2. Ways of Conceptualising Occupational Careers 3. The Teaching Career 4. Opportunity Structure of Tasmanian Teachers 5. Case Study of Teachers’ Careers: Research Design and Procedures 6. Personal and Professional Characteristics of Promoted Teachers 7. Career Patterns of Teachers 8. Teacher Perceptions of the Teaching Career 9. Teachers’ Careers: Summary, Discussion of Results and Conclusions Drawn; Bibliography; Appendices; Index