‘Out of time’ : Constructing teacher professionality as a perpetual project on the eTwinning digital platform
Journal article
Lewis, Steven and Decuypere, Mathias. (2023). ‘Out of time’ : Constructing teacher professionality as a perpetual project on the eTwinning digital platform. Tertium Comparationis. 29(1), pp. 22-47. https://doi.org/10.31244/tc.2023.01.02
Authors | Lewis, Steven and Decuypere, Mathias |
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Abstract | This paper seeks to understand what digital schooling platforms do to teacher professionality; that is, the combination of professional knowledge, discretion and responsibility that enables a teacher to be professional. Specifically, we explore how the European Commission’s (EC) teacher professional learning platform eTwinning promotes a projectified (i.e., project-focused) and platformed (i.e., largely occurring on digital platforms) version of teacher professionality. Informed by recent thinking around ‘projectification’; that is, the ability of the project form to shape work practices, as well as the topological nature of timespace within a project, we argue that projectified teacher learning and professionality are now constituted through platform dynamics as a perpetual project-initself. As such, the projectified teacher is left simultaneously in-time (i.e., within the bounds of the project timespace) and out-of-time (i.e., out of possibilities of progress that can exist outside of the project), and thus faces the insuperable task of never-ending self-improvement through and as the project form (teacher-as-project). |
Year | 2023 |
Journal | Tertium Comparationis |
Journal citation | 29 (1), pp. 22-47 |
Publisher | Waxmann Verlag Gmbh |
ISSN | 0947-9732 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.31244/tc.2023.01.02 |
Open access | Open access |
Page range | 22-47 |
Funder | Australian Research Council (ARC) |
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) | |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 16 Jun 2023 |
ARC Funded Research | This output has been funded, wholly or partially, under the Australian Research Council Act 2001 |
Grant ID | DE190101141 |
C14/18/041 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8z23w/-out-of-time-constructing-teacher-professionality-as-a-perpetual-project-on-the-etwinning-digital-platform
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