Part 1 Setting the scene: studying teachers; the workplace. Part 2 Doing the work: the teacher and the class; beyond the classroom; managing the drama; colleagues, cultures and caring. Part 3 Crossing the boundaries: school boundaries; parents. Part 4 Changing people and places: teachers' careers; educational reform.
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This book follows the fortunes of the teachers at Hillview Primary School over ten years. It explores what it is like to be a primary, or elementary school teacher in an urban school with about 200 children, mixed in social class and ethnicity.