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The work and lives of teachers : a global perspective

Cohen, Rosetta Marantz, author

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\"The Work and Lives of Teachers offers a simple but original argument: that the cultural attitudes toward the teaching profession measurably influence how students perform. Cohen uses both ethnographic portraits and personal accounts from thirteen teachers - from Finland, Taiwan, Greece, Azerbaijan, France, Chile, South Africa, Siberia, Brazil, Romania, Philippines, Norway and the United States - to explore the meaning and value of teaching worldwide. This study includes the ways in which teachers in these countries are educated, recruited, compensated, and perceived by parents, students, administrators, and the culture at large. Teachers' voices, so rarely heard in international educational studies, are front and center here, highlighting the daily work in the classroom and the pleasures and struggles of engaging in the teaching profession in 2016. The lesson, briefly stated, is that societies are only as good as the people who teach in them\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Teachers Cross-cultural studies. / Teaching Cross-cultural studies. / PSYCHOLOGY / General.
• ISBN: 9781107135741, 9781316501634

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
LB1775.C723 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE