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On Having One's Chance: Autonomy as Education's Limit
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Pitt, Alice – Educational Theory, 2010
When hopelessness and helplessness become recurring themes in teacher education scholarship, this signals a conceptual problem with the question of autonomy in the profession. In this essay, Alice Pitt argues that breakdowns of professional life belong to what is most subjective in the profession. Pitt opens her analysis of this conundrum by…
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