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School Culture (Published in association with the British Educational Leadership and Management Society) - Hardcover
`I waited with great anticipation to receive Jon Prossers book School Culture. The wait was worth it and I wasn′t to be disappointed....this is a fine book bringing to a reader a credible and solid set of work′- Youth and Policy
School culture is today one of the most important themes in education and educational research.This book draws on a wide range of contemporary perspectives to provide an insight into the key issues and concepts which underpin school culture.
The first part of the book is concerned with culture as an holistic concept. The second part adopts the stance that school culture is the sum of its subcultures.The contributors focus on significant groups such as te
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`I waited with great anticipation to receive Jon Prosser′s book School Culture. The wait was worth it and I wasn′t to be disappointed... This is a fine book bringing to a reader a credible and solid set of work′ - Youth and Policy
`Jon Prosser has put together an eclectic volume. School Culture is not isolated from out of school forces, most of the authors argue. Jon Prosser and Terry Warbuton′s piece analyzing the visual representation of schools and teaching shows this in a looking-glass manner. The different chapters challenge us to think again about what we mean by ethos and atmosphere. What the volume demonstrates is just how difficult and challenging it is to define what constitutes a school′s culture′ - Journal of Education for Teaching
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- PublisherSAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1853964336
- ISBN 13 9781853964336
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
- EditorProsser Jon
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