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School reform and transitions in teacher professionalism and identity
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In this article, transitions in the operational definitions of professionalism over the last 20 years will be discussed, as a consequence of (imposed) changes in the control of curriculum and assessment and increased measures of public accountability.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Educational Research.The article was published on 2002-01-01. It has received 517 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Job satisfaction & Curriculum.read more
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The Audit Explosion
TL;DR: Power as discussed by the authors offers a comprehensive critique of the spread of auditing in both the public and private sectors and shows how to achieve a better balance between audits and other forms of accountability.
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Teachers and Texts: A Political Economy of Class and Gender Relations in Education
Jenny Ozga,Michael W. Apple +1 more
TL;DR: The Politics of Teachers and Texts as discussed by the authors discusses the relationship between teachers and texts and the culture and commerce of the textbook, and concludes that the new technology is either part of the Solution or Part of the Problem in education.
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Self-efficacy, job satisfaction, motivation and commitment: exploring the relationships between indicators of teachers' professional identity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how relevant indicators of teachers' sense of their professional identity (job satisfaction, occupational commitment, selfefficacy and change in level of motivation) are related.
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Teacher identity and agency in an era of accountability
TL;DR: This paper investigated how primary school teachers constructed self-understandings of what it means to be a professional inside the current educational reform context in the USA, drawing from social-practice theories of identity construction and conceiving of the educational reform discourses as sets of diffuse force relations that shape the social contexts and conditions of possibility in which American teachers work.
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One teacher's identity, emotions, and commitment to change: A case study into the cognitive–affective processes of a secondary school teacher in the context of reforms
TL;DR: In this paper, a cognitive social-psychological theoretical framework on emotions is presented to understand how teachers' identity can be affected in a context of reforms, and the emphasis of this approach is on the cognitive-affective processes of individual teachers, enabling us to gain a detailed understanding of what teachers have at stake or what their personal, moral and social concerns are.
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The postmodern condition : a report on knowledge
TL;DR: In this article, the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and how the flow of information is controlled in the Western world are discussed.
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The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity
TL;DR: Performativity is a new mode of state regulation which makes it possible to govern in an "advanced liberal" way as mentioned in this paper, and it requires individual practitioners to organize themselves as a response to targets, indicators and evaluations.
The Emotional Brain
TL;DR: In The Emotional Brain, Joseph LeDoux investigates the origins of human emotions and explains that many exist as part of complex neural systems that evolved to enable us to survive.
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The rise of professionalism
TL;DR: In the medical and teaching professions, the importance of narrow responsibilities is consciously and unconsciously emphasized, exaggerating the "dignity" of the functions as mentioned in this paper, and the professional's sense of power and authority flows not only from his actual command over special knowledge but also from his control over interpersonal situations.