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Product Description In today′s environment of rapid change, the issue of how primary teachers really teach has never been more important. Every experienced teacher knows that no teacher can make a pupil learn. Teaching and learning can only take place with the co-operation of the teacher and the learner. It is therefore a negotiated process, but what is it that the teacher and pupil actually negotiate? Observations of classrooms suggest that teachers and pupils negotiate a power relationship. This power relationship has nothing to do with institutions, or the power and authority of the teacher. This power is simply the power generated between two or more people when they communicate with each other. However, when we observe this process of neg Review `This is a book which will be particularly useful to students who are beginning to explore the nature of teaching and should facilitate their reflection on the significance of the relationships they observe in schools′ - Educational Review