Jackson's Life in Classrooms (1990) is a reprint of a 1968 version with the addition of a new introduction. The introduction is basically a reflection of how the author, who had previously been a quantitative scientist, felt that there was something missing in the information provided by this research and turned to ethnography and more qualitative research.


Philip W. Jackson(1929 2015)was the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Education and Psychology and in the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, includingLife in Classrooms, The Practice of Teaching, andJohn Dewey and the Philosopher s Task.