Overview

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 research. This book offers varied perspectives from diverse geographies to examine how teacher subjectivities are shaped by conditions of possibility. Collectively, they show how critiquing conditions (rather than the teachers themselves) provide a means for problematising ‘the teacher’, while also advocating the well-being of teachers as humans. Contributions offer compelling examples of how critical scholars can emphasise teaching as a political and value-laden exercise, and therefore treat the teacher subject as also being constituted through political and value-laden discourses. Critical Perspectives on Teachers and Teaching offers a provocation to inspire new questions moving forward. That is, critical researchers have an obligation to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions – not only by looking outwards at the policymakers, edu-businesses, and intergovernmental agencies (e.g., OECD), but also by looking inwards and challenging their assumptions about power, discourse and subjectivity. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies in Education.

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Author:   Jessica Holloway (Australian Catholic University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9781032693125

ISBN 10:   1032693126
Pages:   130
Publication Date:   08 February 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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).

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