ERIC Number: EJ1125182
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 17
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Talking about Education: Exploring the Significance of Teachers' Talk for Teacher Agency
Biesta, Gert; Priestley, Mark; Robinson, Sarah
Journal of Curriculum Studies, v49 n1 p38-54 2017
The interest in teachers' discourses and vocabularies has for a long time been studied under the rubric of knowledge, most notably teachers' professional knowledge. This interest can be traced back to Shulman's distinction between different kinds of teacher knowledge and Schwab's interest in the role of practical reasoning and judgement in teaching. Within the research, a distinction can be found between a more narrow approach that focuses on teachers' propositional or theoretical knowledge and a more encompassing approach in which teachers' knowledge is not only the knowledge for teachers generated elsewhere, but also the knowledge of teachers. This is the 'stock of knowledge' gained from a range of sources and experiences, including teachers' ongoing engagement with the practice of teaching itself. In this paper, we focus on the role of teachers' talk in their achievement of agency. We explore how, in what way and to what extent such talk helps or hinders teachers in exerting control over and giving direction to their everyday practices, bearing in mind that such practices are not just the outcome of teachers' judgements and actions, but are also shaped by the structures and cultures within which teachers work.
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teaching Methods, Professional Autonomy, Educational Practices, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Educational Policy, Educational Attitudes, Teacher Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (Scotland)
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