Behind Closed Doors: Teachers and the Role of the Teachers' Lounge

by Miriam Ben-Peretz, Shifra Schonmann, Philip W. Jackson (Foreword)

At the University of Haifa, Israel, Miriam Ben-Peretz is Professor of Education and Shifra Schonmann is a Senior Lecturer of Education and Head of the Division of Development and Administration of Educational Systems. Miriam Ben-Peretz is the author of several books, including Learning from Memory and the Teacher's Account of Teaching and The Teacher Freeing Teachers from the Tyranny of Texts , both published by SUNY Press, and is the coeditor, with Rainer Bromme, of The Nature of Time in Theoretical Practitioner Perceptions . Shifra Schonmann is author of Theater of the Class .

199 pages, Paperback

First published February 3, 2000

About the author

Miriam Ben-Peretz is Professor of Education and former Dean of the School of Education at the University of Haifa, Israel, as well as President of Tel-Hai College, Israel. She is the author of The Teacher-Curriculum Encounter: Freeing Teachers from the Tyranny of Texts, also published by SUNY Press.