Challenging the Deprofessionalisation of Teaching and Teachers: Claiming and Acclaiming the Profession

Buchanan, John

This book explores how best to invest in and nurture teachers. It examines deprofessionalisation and reprofessionalisation in the recent developments in the understanding of teaching and learning, including the effects of standardizing teaching, education shaped by student satisfaction data and basic skills tests.

The book focuses on Australian context and takes on an international perspective. It investigates fundamental issues affecting teacher quality, morale, attrition and retention, learner and teacher autonomy, and assessment and evaluation. It encourages teachers and teacher educators to assert centrality to teachers and question and challenge outside forces that suppress teacher autonomy and associated agency and creativity. It challenges administrators and educational jurisdictions to rethink their assumptions on their own capacities and limitations and teachers' capabilities to shape education in optimal ways and the impact of outcomes of the decisions they make.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2020-10-02

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9789811585371

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-8538-8

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 250