{"product_id":"teachers-in-the-middle-reclaiming-joseph-l-devitis-9780820474595","title":"Teachers in the Middle; Reclaiming the Wasteland of the Adolescent Years of Schooling","description":"There is a profound and deepening crisis afflicting secondary schools in most parts of the world - but at its essence it is a crisis of a very different kind from the one portrayed by the media, the business community, politicians, and policy makers. Just what constitutes the crisis is highly problematic. What is being constructed for us through a concerted  conservative assault  and a  new authoritarianism  is one of failure by young people, their schools, and their teachers. But as with any moral panic, there are undisclosed interests and agenda operating, and they are not those of the people most directly affected, in this case young people.\u003cbr\u003e This book tackles those myths head-on. Through a multi-layered portrait analysis of young lives, adult lives, and school lives this book shows how schools, teachers, and young people are re-inventing themselves against the damaging prevailing educational policy discourses. Teachers are  in the middle  in all kinds of ways - they are a group who are continually being disparaged, pilloried, and denigrated by politicians and the media; they are caught in the shifting tectonic plates of capitalism as schools are increasingly required to do economic work; and they are continually mediating the emotional, social, and intellectual intersections between schools, society, classrooms, and young lives. \u003ci\u003eTeachers in the Middle\u003c\/i\u003e provides a critique as well as hope and possibility as schools engage pedagogically with the maelstrom in which they find themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph L. DeVitis,John Smyth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820474592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820474595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2007 pg. 226","brand":"Joseph L. DeVitis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47422747181311,"sku":"9780820474595","price":48.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bd08b9b8-963d-4188-8819-c1edec5fa6fe.jpg?v=1761528000","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/teachers-in-the-middle-reclaiming-joseph-l-devitis-9780820474595","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}