Critical Perspectives on Teachers and Teaching

ISBN-13: 9781032693125 / Twarda / 2024 / 126 str.

Opis

This book draws attention to the new ways the field of education is problematising the emerging and evolving conditions that shape the work, lives and identities of teachers. It offers geographically diverse accounts of ‘the teacher’ and ‘teaching’, demonstrating what it means to do critical research well.

Spis treści

Introduction: Teachers and teaching: (re)thinking professionalism, subjectivity and critical inquiry  1. Teacher-entrepreneurialism: a case of teacher identity formation in neoliberalizing education space in contemporary India  2. Punching the clock: a Foucauldian analysis of teacher time clock use  3. ‘Quality’ at a cost: the politics of teacher education policy in Australia  4. Integrated networks of care: supporting teachers who care for Latina mothering students  5. The Pluto Problem: Reflexivities of Discomfort in Teacher Professional Development  6. Teachers’ critical interculturality understandings after an international teaching practicum  7. Re-professionalizing teaching: the new professionalism in the United States

O autorze

Jessica Holloway is a Senior Research Fellow within the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE) at Australian Catholic University, Australia. Her most recent books include Expertise (with Jessica Gerrad, 2023) and Metrics, Standards and Alignment in Teacher Policy: Critiquing Fundamentalism and Imagining Pluralism (2021).