How Do Teachers Manage to Teach? Perspectives on Problems in Practice.

In two case studies, Lampert views the teacher as dilemma manager-- a broker of contradictory interests. Other images of teachers--as choosing among dichotomous alternative views, fulfilling others' expectations, as technical production managers and implementers of theories on learning--are contrasted with the perspective of teaching as the acceptance of continuous conflict with which teachers can learn to cope. (SK)