Overview
- Asserts the centrality of teachers to effecting teaching and learning
- Addresses Australian circumstances, including Indigenous education and multiculturalism, and in comparison with regional and global contexts
- Reviews critically the current literature on education and theorizes the influences that serve to deprofessionalise teaching
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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.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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The State of Play
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The ‘Players’
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Playing our Professional Part
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
John Buchanan is an Associate Professor in the School of International Studies and Education at the University of Technology Sydney. He has taught at primary, secondary and tertiary levels and is a recipient of teaching awards at institution, state and national levels, and has coordinated international programs, including the International Professional Experience, in the School. His teaching and research interests include retention, attrition and quality of teachers, English as an additional language, LOTE (Languages other than English) education, intercultural, regional and global studies, and civics and citizenship education. He has published more than 60 refereed journal articles, books and book chapters in these fields and has supervised more than a dozen higher degree research students on related topics. He has also presented at numerous international conferences, including invited plenary addresses in Korea, Pakistan, Colombia and the United Arab Emirates. He has contributed to and led numerous funded research projects with a combined total of over $1.5 million. He is a past president of the New South Wales Institute for Educational Research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Challenging the Deprofessionalisation of Teaching and Teachers
Book Subtitle: Claiming and Acclaiming the Profession
Authors: John Buchanan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8538-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8537-1Published: 02 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8540-1Published: 03 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8538-8Published: 01 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 250
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Teaching and Teacher Education, Sociology of Education