Teachers Versus Technocrats

Harry F. Wolcott draws on his dual perspective as an educator and an anthropologist to provide a unique and penetrating look at the dynamics of a federally funded research and development project and to analyze what happened when university researchers and school district administrators attempted to introduce an experimental planning and evaluation system in an operating school district.

Preface

ix

Foreword

xv

Max G. Abbott

Introduction. Bias at Work: Proceed with Caution

1

(6)

Part I. The Case Study as Event

7

(104)

Challenge: The Project's Early Days

9

(22)

Response: The Pilot Study's Early Days

31

(23)

Challenge: The Pilot Study's Later Days

54

(30)

Response: The Project's Later Days

84

(27)

Part II. The Case Study as a Class of Events

111

(34)

Prologue to Part II

113

(3)

Moieties: A Perspective for Analysis

116

(13)

Moieties in Traditional Anthropological Literature

129

(16)

Part III. Educator Moieties: an Analysis of the Case and Examination of Educator Subculture

145

(102)

Educator Moieties: An Overview

147

(22)

Educator Moieties: Antithesis and Rivalry

169

(21)

Educator Moieties: Reciprocity

190

(39)

Educator Moieties: Complementarity

229

(10)

Summing Up

239

(8)

Acknowledgments

247

(2)

References

249

(8)

About the Author

257

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Teachers Versus Technocrats

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