188 pages
250 x 168mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 056 X
ISBN-13: 978 185856 056 4

This is the inside story of a successful urban comprehensive school with a large refugee intake, how it is training beginning teachers in partnership with a university. With its commitment to the learning of both students and stuff, it has played a pioneering role in the new school-based training.

The individual accounts by the Head and teachers working in the school provide a vivid and detailed account of this vibrant school and how the new teachers' professional development is managed to ensure that they qualify well equipped to teach in an urban school. The book makes fascinating and informative reading for teachers and others involved in initial teacher training it will provide valuable insights into an urban comprehensive for student teachers and anyone considering a career in teaching.
Ruth Heilbronn is senior teacher responsible for professional development at Hampstead School.

Crispin Jones is Senior Lecturer in Urban Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, and is co-author of Postmodernity and European Education Systems and Refugee Education : Mapping the Field both from Trentham.