Torquing up TAFE teacher traction through a critical spirit discourse
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Paper/Presentation Title | Torquing up TAFE teacher traction through a critical spirit discourse |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | |
Author | Tyler, Mark A. |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA) 12th Annual Conference: Aligning Participants, Policy and Pedagogy: Traction and Tensions in VET Research |
Number of Pages | 13 |
Year | 2009 |
ISBN | 9780980527513 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://www.avetra.org.au/annual_conference/presentations-2009.shtml. |
Conference/Event | 12th Annual Conference of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA): Aligning Participants, Policy and Pedagogy: Traction and Tensions in VET Research |
Event Details | 12th Annual Conference of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA): Aligning Participants, Policy and Pedagogy: Traction and Tensions in VET Research Event Date 16 to end of 17 Apr 2009 Event Location Sydney, NSW |
Abstract | This paper reports on research conducted with TAFE teachers from Queensland and Western Australia. The research is located at the intersection where these teachers’identities met with the discourse of new vocationalism. Scholars have highlighted the tensions that this discourse has produced in the relationships between TAFE and its teachers, and noted that TAFE teachers are pressured to change their subjectivities to better reflect themselves as workers in an educational market focused on economic imperatives, as opposed to notions of themselves as liberal educators, with a focus on lifelong learning, personal transformation, collaborative relationships and social responsibility. This research was driven by the possibility that the concept of ‘critical spirit’ might provide a means for TAFE teachers to gain traction, and to stand their ground in relation to the continued terraforming (or is that terror forming?) of the TAFE teacher terrain produced by the adoption of the new vocational discourse. This interpretative research was conceptualised by synthesising sociocultural |
Keywords | TAFE, TAFE teachers, teacher identity, critical spirit, neo liberalism, vocational education, VET, reflective, discourse |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390114. Vocational education and training curriculum and pedagogy |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Education |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9z03v/torquing-up-tafe-teacher-traction-through-a-critical-spirit-discourse
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