These essays bring together a range of Howard Becker's work on education and educational institutions. They provide conceptual analyses of schools and higher education institutions, a discussion of ethnographic work in education and examples of empirical studies on teachers and pupils. Howard Becker writes on such topics as: schools, teachers, pupils, teacher-pupil interaction, assessment and testing. The book includes an introduction to a range of concepts in the symbolic interactionist tradition including: career, commitment; situational adjustment; and socialization. Ethnographic methods are discussed and there are several examples of the ways in which in-depth interview data can be used in educational studies.
- ISBN13 9780335190911
- Publish Date 16 August 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 November 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Open University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 144
- Language English