Mapping the inner landscape of Australian TAFE teachers: navigating contours by explicating critical spirit
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Mapping the inner landscape of Australian TAFE teachers: navigating contours by explicating critical spirit |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 2978 |
Book Title | Troubling terrains: tactics for traversing and transforming contemporary educational research |
Authors | |
Author | Tyler, Mark A. |
Editors | Henderson, Robyn and Danaher, Patrick Alan |
Page Range | 119-136 |
Chapter Number | 9 |
Number of Pages | 18 |
Year | 2008 |
Publisher | Post Pressed |
Place of Publication | Brisbane, Australia |
ISBN | 9781921214318 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.postpressed.com.au |
Abstract | In The Courage to Teach, Parker J. Palmer (1998) explores the inner landscape of teachers by elaborating his proposition that 'We teach who we are' (p. 1). What is highlighted is that in order to teach well teachers need firstly to know their self-hood and then to connect it with what they do. With this in mind, this chapter explores ruminations around my research into a particular site in the inner landscape of teachers' work. That site is illuminated and mapped by applying a concept known as critical spirit, which is used to describe the dispositions of the critical thinker (Oxman-Michelli, 1992; Siegel, 1988). The intention is to seek support for the notion of critical spirit being part of the inner terrain of a group of Australian Technical and Further Education (TAFE) teachers working within the current period of new vocationalism. |
Keywords | critical spirit; teacher identity; TAFE teacher; dispositions; critical thinking; methodology; discourse analysis |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390203. Sociology of education |
390114. Vocational education and training curriculum and pedagogy | |
500321. Social and political philosophy | |
Public Notes | Author retains copyright. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Education |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9z03y/mapping-the-inner-landscape-of-australian-tafe-teachers-navigating-contours-by-explicating-critical-spirit
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