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ERIC Number: EJ678396
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0141-1926
Compliance, Resistance and Pragmatism: The (Re)construction of Schoolteacher Identities in a Period of Intensive Educational Reform.
Moore, Alex; Edwards, Gwyn; Halpin, David; George, Rosalyn
British Educational Research Journal, v28 n4 p551-65 Aug 2002
Explores (drawing on empirical research) ways in which schoolteachers in England reposition themselves in the face of rapid and extensive educational change, some of which they may view with ambivalence or hostility. Identifies and illustrates two distinct forms of pragmatism: (1) principled pragmatism, and (2) contingent pragmatism. (BT)
Descriptors: Compliance (Psychology), Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Resistance (Psychology), Teaching (Occupation)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Empirical Research; England; Pragmatism