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Publication Date: 2007
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Resistance as a Component of Educator Professionalism
Gunzenhauser, Michael G.
Philosophical Studies in Education, v38 p23-36 2007
This essay looks to varied conceptions of resistance with the aim of explaining how resistance might be incorporated into a notion of educator professionalism in the most effective way. The author contends that high-stakes accountability policy poses a complicated set of power relations for professional educators. Both students and educators are problematic as constituted subjects, but this essay focuses on teachers' positions in multiple relations of power--as adults in positions to discipline and be disciplined, to resist, and be resisted.
Descriptors: Professional Identity, High Stakes Tests, Accountability, Resistance to Change, Critical Theory, Educational Change, Educational Theories, Educational Practices, Educational Philosophy, Ethics, Teacher Student Relationship, Professional Autonomy, Teacher Role, Power Structure
Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society. Web site: http://ovpes.org/?page_id=51
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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