Chapter 9 - Further Reading

There is extensive literature on teachers’ lives and why we teach but much less on teaching in higher education. Key early texts on teachers’ lives were Ball and Goodson (1985) and Goodson (1992). Ivor Goodson, in particular, has maintained a long commitment to teacher life history. An NFER paper (Spear, Gould and Lee, 2000), though dated, sums up the literature on why teach. Those with an interest in why teach ICT as a subject might look at Hammond (2002). A very readable account of an earlier time for beginning to teach is Hannam, Smyth and Stephenson (1976) – it will help you believe that there has been progress in how we treat new teachers!!