Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning teachers of English in times of change
Beginning teachers of English are entering a profession in which their subject is increasingly framed according to prescriptive models of literacy. This is happening at a time of shift away from university ITE provision towards schoolled training. We offer a spatialised theorisation of the ways in w...
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| description | Beginning teachers of English are entering a profession in which their subject is increasingly framed according to prescriptive models of literacy. This is happening at a time of shift away from university ITE provision towards schoolled training. We offer a spatialised theorisation of the ways in which beginning teachers of English have drawn from the balance of practical and theoretical approaches encountered in their qualifying year to engage with tensions between policy and practice. We suggest that university ITE provides important interstitial spaces in which they can explore some of these tensions and navigate pedagogies, principles and values. In doing so, they are negotiating alternatives, which, we argue, represent powerful potential for their future within the profession. |
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| spelling | nottingham-319092020-05-04T16:42:59Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31909/ Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning teachers of English in times of change McIntyre, Joanna Jones, Susan Beginning teachers of English are entering a profession in which their subject is increasingly framed according to prescriptive models of literacy. This is happening at a time of shift away from university ITE provision towards schoolled training. We offer a spatialised theorisation of the ways in which beginning teachers of English have drawn from the balance of practical and theoretical approaches encountered in their qualifying year to engage with tensions between policy and practice. We suggest that university ITE provides important interstitial spaces in which they can explore some of these tensions and navigate pedagogies, principles and values. In doing so, they are negotiating alternatives, which, we argue, represent powerful potential for their future within the profession. Wiley Online Library 2014-02-20 Article PeerReviewed McIntyre, Joanna and Jones, Susan (2014) Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning teachers of English in times of change. English in Education, 48 (1). pp. 26-40. ISSN 1754-8845 TE English space policy change http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eie.12029/abstract doi:10.1111/eie.12029 doi:10.1111/eie.12029 |
| spellingShingle | TE English space policy change McIntyre, Joanna Jones, Susan Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning teachers of English in times of change |
| title | Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning
teachers of English in times of change |
| title_full | Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning
teachers of English in times of change |
| title_fullStr | Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning
teachers of English in times of change |
| title_full_unstemmed | Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning
teachers of English in times of change |
| title_short | Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning
teachers of English in times of change |
| title_sort | possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning
teachers of english in times of change |
| topic | TE English space policy change |
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