ERIC Number: EJ855584
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Oct
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-1750-8487
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Good Teachers on Dangerous Ground: Towards a New View of Teacher Quality and Professionalism
Connell, Raewyn
Critical Studies in Education, v50 n3 p213-229 Oct 2009
Ideas about what makes a good teacher are important in thinking about educational reform, and have come into focus recently. These ideas are contested and open to change. The first part of this paper traces models of the good teacher in Australia from the colonial-era good servant, through an ideal of the autonomous scholar-teacher, to contemporary lists of teacher competencies. The second part looks more closely at the incoherent but insistent way the good teacher is now defined under neoliberal governance by teacher registration authorities. The third part of the paper makes proposals for a new understanding of good teachers: based on understanding the labour process and occupational dynamics of teaching, the intellectual structure of Education studies, and the overall logic of education itself. (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Competencies, Educational Change, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational History, Educational Policy, Teacher Education, Politics of Education, Teacher Role
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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