Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher

Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher

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Winner of the 2019-20 Distinguished Book Award - Midwest Sociological Society

In Lesson Plans, Judson G. Everitt takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training, and reveals the complexities and dilemmas teacher candidates confront as they learn how to perform a job that many people assume anybody can do. Using rich qualitative data, Everitt analyzes how people make sense of their prospective jobs as teachers, and how their introduction to this profession is shaped by the institutionalized rules and practices of higher education, K-12 education, and gender. Trained to constantly adapt to various contingencies that routinely arise in schools and classrooms, teacher candidates learn that they must continually try to reconcile the competing expectations of their jobs to meet students’ needs in an era of accountability. Lesson Plans reveals how institutions shape the ways we produce teachers, and how new teachers make sense of the multiple and complicated demands they face in their efforts to educate students.

ISBN

9780813588285

Publication Date

12-21-2017

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

City

New Brunswick, NJ

Keywords

Higher Education, Teacher Education, Educational Sociology, Teaching, Education

Disciplines

Educational Sociology

Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher

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