Preface. Part 1: Contemporary Concerns in Their Historical Context. Introduction. Schooling for Delinquency David H Hargreaves. Left Policy and Practice and the Sociology of Education Geoff Whitty. The Educational Worker? A Re-assessment of Teachers Martin Lawn and Jenny Ozga. Politicians Rule O.K? Implications for Teacher Careers and School Management Colin Hunter. Contradictions of Control: Elementary Education in a Mining District 1870-1977 Bill Williamson. The Double Burden of Class and Gender in the Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Nineteenth Century England, 1800-1870 June Purvis. Part 2: Contemporary Concerns and the School System Introduction. The Comprehensive Experience David Reynolds and Michael Sullivan. A Community School Colin Fletcher. The Teaching Nexus: A Case of Mixed Ability Stephen Ball. Teacher Strategies and Pupil Identities in Mixed Ability Curricula: A Note on Concepts and some examples from Maths. Peter Corbishley, John Evans, Catherine Kenrick and Brian Davies. Towards a Sociology of Assessment Patricia Broadfoot. Known and Understood: Problematics in Developing an Understanding of the Social Effects of Schooling. Paul Olson. Part 3: Contemporary Concerns and the Work of Teachers. Introduction. Classrooom Ethnography and the Definition of the Situation Robert Stebbins. Teacher-Pupil Question-Answer Sequences: Some Problems of Analysis Stephen Walker. Strategies, Commitment and Identity; Making and Breaking the Teacher Peter Woods. Contrastive Rhetoric and Extremist Talk: Teachers, Hegemony and the Educationist Context Andy Hargreaves. Ideology in the Staffroom? A Critique of False Consciousness. Martyn Hammersley. Index.
