Politics, Professionals and Practitioners

ISBN-13: 9780415306379 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 158 str.

Wendy Robinson; Rob Freathy; Jonathan Doney

Opis

Grounded in a firm commitment to the value that a historical perspective might bring to current and recurrent educational concerns, of which educational professionalism remains key, this book presents eight distinctive historical chapters that explore the complex relationship between politics, professionals and practitioners in a range of different educational contexts. It offers a timely contribution to current debates about the contested place and status of educational professionalism in modern society. This book was originally published as a special issue of History of Education.

Spis treści

Introduction: Politics, professionals and practitioners  1. Can we still speak of there being an academic profession?  2. Intellectual portraits: politics, professions and identity in twentieth-century England  3. Context, curriculum and professional knowledge  4. Knowledge, character and professionalization in nineteenth-century British science  5. Reconstructing the life histories of Spanish primary school teachers: a novel approach for the study of the teaching profession and school culture  6. Re-shaping teacher identity? The Liverpool Teachers’ Centre 1973-1976  7. 'That great educational experiment': the City of London Vacation Course in Education 1922-1938: a forgotten story in the history of teacher professional development  8. Conceptualising and researching the professionalisation of Religious Education teachers: historical and international perspectives