Michael Murphy
Ashgate
Paperback
224
1995
The Staffroom is a vivid ethnographic description of a high school staffroom that makes extensive use of the words of the teachers themselves. The staffroom is viewed as a stage where teachers present themselves to each other. Among the topics raised are: social relations ? competition, cooperation and individualism, Values ? preserving the social order of the school, belief in the importance of the hierarchic structure, control and vocation, and, teachers? power within the school.