Behind Closed Doors: Teachers and the Role of the Teachers' Lounge,9780791444481

Behind Closed Doors: Teachers and the Role of the Teachers' Lounge

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ISBN13: 9780791444481
ISBN10: 0791444481
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-02-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

What happens behind the closed doors of the teachers' lounge? Does the lounge provide more than a place to rest and maybe drink a cup of coffee between classes?

Behind Closed Doors examines the teachers' lounge as a site for the development of communal knowledge. While the book discusses an extensive qualitative study of teacher interactions in 26 teachers' lounges in Israeli schools, it reveals that the culture of teachers transcends national boundaries and is quite recognizable. Teachers in the lounge are regarded in this book as 'learners' whether they are actually involved in formal professional development activities, or in informal exchanges with their colleagues. Teachers learn about students and modes of instruction, but also about norms of collegiality that govern life in the lounge, and about supporting each other and coping with the manifold stresses of teaching. This book makes a significant contribution to the literature on teacher learning and socialization.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(10)
Modes of Inquiry
11(10)
Social Situations
21(16)
Dramatic Language
37(16)
Blurring of Boundaries
53(24)
Metaphors and Monologues
77(22)
Teachers' Perception of Lounges and Student Achievement (coauthored with Haggai Kupermintz)
99(16)
Principals in the Teachers' Lounge: Intruders or Colleagues?
115(14)
Professional Communities and Teacher Development
129(18)
Implications for Teacher Education
147(12)
Epilogue: Paradoxes in the Lounge 159(8)
Appendix I 167(4)
Appendix II 171(4)
References 175(8)
Index 183

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