1st Edition

Critical Perspectives on Teachers and Teaching Professionalism, Responsibilities and Development

Edited By Jessica Holloway Copyright 2024
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

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. Teachers and their practice have been, and continue to be, important sites of critical... Read more

Introduction: Teachers and teaching: (re)thinking professionalism, subjectivity and critical inquiry
Jessica Holloway

1. Teacher-entrepreneurialism: a case of teacher identity formation in neoliberalizing education space in contemporary India
Achala Gupta

2. Punching the clock: a Foucauldian analysis of teacher time clock use
Chris Gilbert

3. ‘Quality’ at a cost: the politics of teacher education policy in Australia
Melissa Barnes and Russell Cross

4. Integrated networks of care: supporting teachers who care for Latina mothering students
Ganiva Reyes

5. The Pluto Problem: Reflexivities of Discomfort in Teacher Professional Development
Matthew A. M. Thomas and Frances K. Vavrus

6. Teachers’ critical interculturality understandings after an international teaching practicum
Rogerio P. Bernardes, Glenda Black, James Otieno Jowi and Kevin Wilcox

7. Re-professionalizing teaching: the new professionalism in the United States
Jory Brass and Jessica Holloway

Biography

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).