We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book (Rutgers University Press) from OOW member, Judson Everitt.   Everitt is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago.  The book is titled, Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher.

Desription: 

In Lesson Plans, Judson Everitt takes readers into the everyday world of teacher training and reveals the complexities and dilemmas teacher candidates confront as they learn how to perform a job that many people assume anyone can do. Using rich qualitative data, Everitt analyzes how people make sense of their prospective jobs as teachers, and how their introduction to this profession is shaped by the institutionalized rules and practices of higher education, K-12 education, and gender. Trained to constantly adapt to various contingencies that routinely arise in schools and classrooms, teacher candidates learn that they must continually try to reconcile the competing expectations of their jobs to meet students’ needs in an era of accountability.  Lesson Plans reveals how institutions shape the ways we produce teachers and how new teachers make sense of the multiple and complicated demands they face in their efforts to educate students.  More information can be found here: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/lesson-plans/9780813587592