Teachers and Schooling Making a Difference: Productive Pedagogies, Assessment, and Performance

Based on extensive research in 1,000 primary and secondary classrooms, this book grapples with tough questions on teaching methods, curriculum, assessment, and teachers' professionalism. The authors isolate the key elements that make the difference in the classroom and offer teachers practical approaches to working with all of their students.

Debra Hayes is senior lecturer in the faculty of education at the University of Technology–Sydney. Martin Mills and Pam Christie are associate professors in the school of education at the University of Queensland. Bob Lingard is professor in the school of education at the University of Sheffield and the author of Educational Policy and the Politics of Change and Men Engaging Feminisms. They all are coauthors of Leading Learning. Michael Apple is the author of Ideology and Curriculum, Official Knowledge, and The State and the Politics of Knowledge.