Teachers and Schooling Making a Difference Productive Pedagogies, Assessment, and Performance

Foreword by Michael Apple Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Productive pedagogies 3. Productive assessment 4. Productive performance 5. Schools can make a difference Bibliography Appendix Index

Debra Hayes is senior lecturer in the faculty of education at the University of Technology–Sydney. Martin Mills and Pam Christie are associate professors in the school of education at the University of Queensland. Bob Lingard is professor in the school of education at the University of Sheffield and the author of Educational Policy and the Politics of Change and Men Engaging Feminisms. They all are coauthors of Leading Learning. Michael Apple is the author of Ideology and Curriculum, Official Knowledge, and The State and the Politics of Knowledge.