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Schooling teachers : Professionalism or disciplinary power?
Bourke, Terri Lidstone, John Ryan, Mary
Bourke, Terri
Lidstone, John
Ryan, Mary
Abstract
Since public schooling was introduced in the nineteenth century, teachers in many western countries have endeavoured to achieve professional recognition. For a short period in the latter part of the twentieth century, professionalism was seen as a discourse of resistance or the ‘enemy’ of economic rationalism and performativity. However, more recently, governments have responded by ‘colonizing’ professionalism and imposing ‘standards’ whereby the concept is redefined. In this study, we analyse transcripts of interviews with 20 Queensland teachers and conclude that teachers’ notions of professionalism in this second decade of the twenty-first century are effectively reiterations of nineteenth century disciplinary technologies (as proposed by Michel Foucault) yet are enacted in new ways.
Keywords
disciplinary power, Foucault, professionalism, teachers
Date
2015
Type
Journal article
Journal
Book
Volume
47
Issue
1
Page Range
84-100
Article Number
ACU Department
Faculty of Education and Arts
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Open
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Controlled
Notes
© 2013 Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia
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