Reconstructing Teaching Standards, Performance, and Accountability

One of the greatest resources a school has is its staff. How teachers are themselves educated and their work defined is therefore of utmost importance. Major trends of increased control and new managerialism are radically altering both the content and form of teacher education. Restructuring Teaching questions whether the outlined changes that have occurred in recent times have been the right ones, initiated by the right people for the right reasons and in the right ways, and explains where current practices in relation to policy making need to be addressed and how lessons can be learned for the future. The authors: explore how the development, role and impact of national teaching standards serve both to deliver and to legitimate the culture of performance, now widespread within the public sector; outline the principles of performance management, according to which teaching is currently being reorganised in terms of their underpinning values and assumptions and the likely impacts on the nature oMahony, Pat is the author of 'Reconstructing Teaching Standards, Performance, and Accountability' with ISBN 9780415230964 and ISBN 0415230969.