The ‘good’ teacher in an era of professional standards: policy frameworks and lived realities
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Article Title | The ‘good’ teacher in an era of professional standards: policy frameworks and lived realities |
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ERA Journal ID | 20747 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Salton, Yvonne (Author), Riddle, Stewart (Author) and Baguley, Margaret (Author) |
Journal Title | Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice |
Journal Citation | 28 (1), pp. 51-63 |
Number of Pages | 13 |
Year | 2022 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of Publication | Milton Park, United Kingdom |
ISSN | 1354-0602 |
1470-1278 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2021.2017274 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13540602.2021.2017274 |
Abstract | This paper presents an analysis of contemporary education policy levers that seek to standardise and measure teaching quality through the deployment of professional standards and increased surveillance of teachers’ work. These policy frameworks—with a focus in this paper on the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers—are contrasted against the experiences of five Australian primary school teachers, using interpretative case study analysis to demonstrate the contradictions, tensions and fragile discursive construction of the idealised ‘good’ teacher. Implications for teacher agency and autonomy are considered, and propositions are generated for policy frameworks that support and enhance quality teaching, rather than reducing the complexities of teaching to a set of standardised metrics. |
Keywords | teacher quality; professional standards; teacher identity; education policy; Australian Professional Standards for Teachers |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390307. Teacher education and professional development of educators |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Education |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q6z26/the-good-teacher-in-an-era-of-professional-standards-policy-frameworks-and-lived-realities
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