TY - BOOK AU - McLaughlin,Milbrey Wallin AU - Bascia,Nina AU - Talbert,Joan E. ED - Stanford University. TI - The Contexts of teaching in secondary schools: teachers' realities T2 - Professional development and practice series SN - 0807730270 (alk. paper) AV - LB1737.A3 C63 1990 U1 - 373.11/02/0973 20 PY - 1990/// CY - New York PB - Teachers College Press, Columbia University KW - High school teaching KW - United States KW - Congresses KW - Local N1 - Based on papers commissioned by Stanford University's Center for Research on the Context of Secondary School Teachers and Teaching, presented at a planning meeting in February of 1988; Includes bibliographical references; Contexts in question : the secondary school workplace -- Social and community values and the quality of teachers' work life -- How social class differences shape teachers' work -- Conditions of teachers' work in independent schools -- Schoolwork : perspectives on workplace reform in public schools -- Primacy and potential of high school departments --Conditions of professional development in secondary schools -- Change processes in secondary schools -- Three views of curriculum policy in the school context : the school as policy mediator, policy critic, and policy constructor ER -