Lesson Plans The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher

"An excellent and exciting addition to the field. Lesson Plans makes important contributions to existing work through its treatment of teacher education programs as sites of cultural negotiation between future teachers and the institutional and organizational expectations for their teaching." - Lisa M. Nunn (author of Defining Student Success) "Lesson Plans is a rich and wonderful study, perhaps the most interesting treatise on teachers since Lortie's seminal Schoolteacher." - Tim Hallett (Indiana University) "A remarkably informative and exceptionally insightful study that is impressively accessible in both organization and presentation, Lesson Plans is a unique and critically important addition both college and university library Teacher Education collections and supplemental studies lists." (Midwest Book Review) "Lesson Plans is a much-needed addition to the body of work on professional socialization, and can be taught both for its topical focus as well as an example of how to use qualitative data to construct arguments that link levels of analysis." (Symbolic Interaction) "Everitt's ethnographic analysis offers a novel look at how teacher candidates respond to accountability standards." (American Journal of Sociology)