Changing teacher professionalism [ international trends, challenges, and ways forward

Significant changes in the policy and social context of teaching over the last 30 years have had substantial implications for teacher professionalism. This collection of work by leading international scholars in the field makes a unique contribution to understanding both how these changes are impact...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gewirtz, Sharon , 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;New York, NY : Routledge , c2009
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Online Access:NetLibrary
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Policy, professionalism and practice: Understanding and enhancing teachers' work; Part 1 The changing context of professionalism
  • 2. The management of professionalism: A contemporary paradox
  • 3. Professional ethics: Whose responsibility?
  • 4. Elusive publics: Knowledge, power and public service reform
  • 5. An English vernacular: Teacher trade unionism and educational politics 1970-2007; Part 2 Living professionalism
  • 6. Paradoxes of teaching in neo-liberal times: Education 'reform' in Chicago
  • 7. Pedagogizing teacher professional identities
  • 8. The lived experiences of black professionals in UK schools: Pioneers, Settlers and Inheritors
  • 9. Inventing the Chartered Teacher
  • 10. On the making and taking of professionalism in the further education workplace
  • 11. In the shadow of the Research Assessment Exercise?: Working in a 'new' university; Part 3 Enhancing professionalism
  • 12. Making teacher change happen