Teacher Professionalism and Good Teaching: Policy and Practice in Scotland and Wales Amy Aukland PhD Education (Year 1) Context: education reform in Scotland and Wales. Teacher professionalism key to educational improvement. Professional
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Teacher Professionalism and Good Teaching:
Policy and Practice in Scotland and Wales Amy Aukland
PhD Education
(Year 1) Context: education reform in Scotland and Wales. Teacher professionalism key to educational improvement.
Professional learning, professional standards, curriculum co-construction, research-literacy. (Scottish Government, 2016; Welsh Government, 2017) What kind of professional learning? (Biesta, 2017; Mockler, 2020)
Focus on individual teacher capacity. (Priestley et al., 2015) Problems: “Teacher professionalism demonstrates the overall quality of the teaching workforce in Scotland”
(Scottish Government, 2016, p. 12)<br>
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Teacher Professionalism and Good Teaching:
Policy and Practice in Scotland and Wales Amy Aukland
PhD Education
(Year 1) Teacher professionalism: a contested concept. Teacher Professionalism: the guiding principles of conduct and governance established to improve the quality of teaching.
(my definition, drawing on: Darling-Hammond, 1990; Sockett, 1993; Hargreaves, 2000) Managerial professionalism
Democratic professionalism
Collaborative professionalism
Transformative professionalism
Moral professionalism So: teacher professionalism should enable good teaching. Knowledge
Autonomy
Accountability
(Furlong et al., 2000; Sachs, 2001; Biesta, 2017; Larsen et al., 2020)<br>
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Teacher Professionalism and Good Teaching:
Policy and Practice in Scotland and Wales Amy Aukland
PhD Education
(Year 1) Excessive responsibility on individual teacher capacity.
Tensions in practice. (Moore & Clarke, 2016; Tatto, 2021; Browes & Altinyelken, 2022)
Question of good teaching. Why is this important? Quality of teaching depends on its PURPOSE.<br>
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References Biesta, G. J. J. (2017) ‘Education, Measurement and the Professions: reclaiming a space for democratic professionality in education’, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 49(4), pp. 315-330.
Browes, B. and Altinyelken, H. K. (2022) ‘Professionalism in the era of accountability: Role discrepancy and responses among teachers in the Netherlands’, The British Journal of Sociology, 73(1), pp. 188-205.
Darling-Hammond, L. (1990) ‘Teacher Professionalism: Why and How’ . In: Lieberman, A. (ed.) Schools as Collaborative Cultures: Creating the Future Now, 1st ed. Hampshire: The Falmer Press, pp. 25-50.
Furlong, J., Barton, L., Miles, S., Whiting, C., and Whitty, G. (2000) Teacher Education in Transition: Re-forming Professionalism? 1st ed, Buckingham: Open University Press.
Hargreaves, A. (2000) ‘Four Ages of Professionalism and Professional Learning’, Teachers and Teaching, 6(2), pp. 151-182.
Larsen, E., Moller, J., and Jensen, R. (2020) ‘Constructions of professionalism and the democratic mandate in education: A discourse analysis of Norwegian public policy documents’, Journal of Education Policy, DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2020.1774807. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2020.1774807. (Accessed 22/05/21)
Mockler, N. (2020) ‘Teacher professional learning under audit: reconfiguring practice in an age of standards’, Professional Development in Education, pp. 1-15, DOI: 10.1080/19415257.2020.1720779.
Moore, A. and Clarke, M. (2016) ‘“Cruel Optimism”: a teacher attachment to professionalism in an era of performativity’, Journal of Education Policy, 31(5), pp. 666-677.
Priestley, M., Biesta, G. and Robinson, S. (2015) Teacher Agency: An Ecological Approach. 1st ed. London: Bloomsbury.
Pring, R. (2015) Philosophy of Educational Research, 3rd ed., London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
Sachs, J. (2001) ‘Teacher professional identity: competing discourses, competing outcomes’, Journal of Education Policy, 16(2), pp. 149-161.
Scottish Government (2016) National Improvement Framework for Scottish Education: Achieving Excellence and Equity. Edinburgh: APS Group.
Sockett, H. (1993) The Moral Base for Teacher Professionalism, 1st ed. New York: Teachers College Press.
Tatto, M. T. (2021) ‘Professionalism in teaching and the role of teacher education’, European Journal of Teacher Education, 44(1), pp. 20-44.
Welsh Government (2017) Education in Wales: Our National Mission. Action Plan 2017-21. Cardiff: Crown. Teacher Professionalism and Good Teaching:
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