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Teacher Professional Learning in a Neoliberal Age: Audit, Professionalism and Identity
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This paper examines the current shape of teacher professional learning, or in-service teacher education, in Australia. Increasingly, teacher professional learning is positioned as both a sure-fire solution to some of the intransigent educational problems of our time, as well as a policy problem in and of itself. In this paper I explore some of the dominant discourses surrounding teacher learning, such as those related to professional standards, teacher professionalism and teacher quality, which regard teacher learning predominantly as about skill acquisition and competency development. I argue that the civil society aspirations of the Melbourne Declaration will better be met by conceptualising teacher professional learning as ‘identity work’. The paper concludes with some questions that might be used to guide thinking about teacher learning and development consistent with these aspirations.
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- Authors
- Mockler, N.
- Affiliations
- University of Newcastle Australia (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Mockler, Nicole
- ORCID
- Mockler, Nicole
- Venue
- Australian Journal of Teacher Education
- Publisher
- Edith Cowan University
- Published
- 2013-10-01
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 10
- ISSN
- 0313-5373 (ISSN-L)
- 1835-517X
- OpenAlex
- W2052476095
- Cited by
- 168
- References
- 32
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 25.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- ro.ecu.edu.au
- Locations
- The Australian journal of teacher education (publishedVersion)
- Australasian Journal of Paramedicine (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion)
- NOVA (University of Newcastle Australia) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Education and Assessments
- Social Sciences › Education › Education Pedagogy and Practices
- Keywords
- teacher learning, continuing teacher education, neoliberalism, teacher professionalism, teacher identity, identity work, professional standards, teacher quality, civil society, auditing, competence development, teacher education policy
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