Teachers in the middle: Reclaiming the wasteland of the adolescent years of schooling

Through a multilayered portrait analysis of young lives, adult lives and school lives, this book shows how schools, teachers and young people are re-inventing themselves against damaging prevailing educational policy discourses. Teachers are 'in the middle' in all kinds of ways - being disparaged and denigrated by politicians and the media; caught in the shifting tectonic plates of capitalism as schools are increasingly required to do economic work; and continually mediating the emotional, social and intellectual intersections between schools, society, classrooms and young lives. [Back cover, ed]