Primary Teachers at Work

The first part of this book charts and analyzes 3,283 working days of 326 primary school teachers in the period between 1990 and 1992. It shows how they spent their working lives, the nature of the curriculum they taught, and analyzes their work in the context of teaching, preparation, administration, professional development and other activities. It includes teachers in both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. The second part relates these findings to issues of school management and curriculum manageability and looks at how the idea of conscientiousness among primary teachers may lead to their exploitation.