John Eggleston was born in Dorchester in 1926 and originally trained as a craft teacher. He taught in schools in the 1950s before winning a Leverhulme Scholarship to the London School of Economics, from where he graduated in 1957. Returning briefly to teaching, he then lectured at Loughborough College of Education, before in 1963 taking up a lectureship and, subsequently, a senior lectureship at Leicester University. _

• Notes on Contributors. Preface. 1. Editorial Introduction: Making Decisions in the Classroom John Eggleston 2. Classroom-based Teaching Decisions John Sutcliffe and Richard Whitfield 3. Teachers’ Implicit Personality Systems: An Exploratory Study Mervyn Taylor 4. Ideology, Reality Assumptions and Teachers’ Classroom Decision-making Douglas Finlayson and Sylvia Quirk 5. A Phenomenological Approach to Classroom Decision-making David H. Hargreaves 6. Decision-making in the Classroom: A Microeconomic Analysis Keith Drake 7. Towards a Political Economy of Decision-making in the Classroom Paul Bellaby 8. Control in the Comprehensive System Colin Hunter 9. Strategies, Decisions and Control: Interaction in a Middle School Classroom Andy Hargreaves 10. How Teachers Decide Pupils’ Subject Choices Peter Woods 11. Towards a Model of Teacher Activity Martyn Hammersley 12. Curriculum Development and Social Change: Towards a Reappraisal of Teacher Action Denis Gleeson 13. Autonomy and Organisation: A Theoretical Perspective on Teacher Decisions George Mardle and Michael Walker. Bibliography. Index.

John Eggleston was born in Dorchester in 1926 and originally trained as a craft teacher. He taught in schools in the 1950s before winning a Leverhulme Scholarship to the London School of Economics, from where he graduated in 1957. Returning briefly to teaching, he then lectured at Loughborough College of Education, before in 1963 taking up a lectureship and, subsequently, a senior lectureship at Leicester University. _

• Notes on Contributors. Preface. 1. Editorial Introduction: Making Decisions in the Classroom John Eggleston 2. Classroom-based Teaching Decisions John Sutcliffe and Richard Whitfield 3. Teachers’ Implicit Personality Systems: An Exploratory Study Mervyn Taylor 4. Ideology, Reality Assumptions and Teachers’ Classroom Decision-making Douglas Finlayson and Sylvia Quirk 5. A Phenomenological Approach to Classroom Decision-making David H. Hargreaves 6. Decision-making in the Classroom: A Microeconomic Analysis Keith Drake 7. Towards a Political Economy of Decision-making in the Classroom Paul Bellaby 8. Control in the Comprehensive System Colin Hunter 9. Strategies, Decisions and Control: Interaction in a Middle School Classroom Andy Hargreaves 10. How Teachers Decide Pupils’ Subject Choices Peter Woods 11. Towards a Model of Teacher Activity Martyn Hammersley 12. Curriculum Development and Social Change: Towards a Reappraisal of Teacher Action Denis Gleeson 13. Autonomy and Organisation: A Theoretical Perspective on Teacher Decisions George Mardle and Michael Walker. Bibliography. Index.

John Eggleston was born in Dorchester in 1926 and originally trained as a craft teacher. He taught in schools in the 1950s before winning a Leverhulme Scholarship to the London School of Economics, from where he graduated in 1957. Returning briefly to teaching, he then lectured at Loughborough College of Education, before in 1963 taking up a lectureship and, subsequently, a senior lectureship at Leicester University. _

• Notes on Contributors. Preface. 1. Editorial Introduction: Making Decisions in the Classroom John Eggleston 2. Classroom-based Teaching Decisions John Sutcliffe and Richard Whitfield 3. Teachers’ Implicit Personality Systems: An Exploratory Study Mervyn Taylor 4. Ideology, Reality Assumptions and Teachers’ Classroom Decision-making Douglas Finlayson and Sylvia Quirk 5. A Phenomenological Approach to Classroom Decision-making David H. Hargreaves 6. Decision-making in the Classroom: A Microeconomic Analysis Keith Drake 7. Towards a Political Economy of Decision-making in the Classroom Paul Bellaby 8. Control in the Comprehensive System Colin Hunter 9. Strategies, Decisions and Control: Interaction in a Middle School Classroom Andy Hargreaves 10. How Teachers Decide Pupils’ Subject Choices Peter Woods 11. Towards a Model of Teacher Activity Martyn Hammersley 12. Curriculum Development and Social Change: Towards a Reappraisal of Teacher Action Denis Gleeson 13. Autonomy and Organisation: A Theoretical Perspective on Teacher Decisions George Mardle and Michael Walker. Bibliography. Index.