Professor Jonathan Tummons jonathan.tummons@durham.ac.uk
Professor
The problematisation of the professional standards for teachers in the UK lifelong learning sector tends to focus on the discourses that the standards embody: discourses that are posited as being based on a restricted or technicist model of professionalism, that fail sufficiently to recognise the lived experiences of teachers within the sector both in terms of professional knowledge and competence, and professional development. This paper takes a different approach, drawing on social practice theories of literacy in order to shift the locus of problematisation away from what the standards might mean, to how the standards are physically assembled or instantiated in documentary form. The paper concludes by suggesting that a first point of problematisation rests not in the discourses that the standards embody, but in the inherent fragilities of any text-based material artefact that has the intention of carrying meaning across spatial, institutional or temporal boundaries.
Tummons, J. (2014). The textual representation of professionalism: problematising professional standards for teachers in the UK lifelong learning sector. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 19(1), 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2014.872918
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 25, 2013 |
Publication Date | Mar 5, 2014 |
Deposit Date | Sep 18, 2013 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 1, 2015 |
Journal | Research in Post-Compulsory Education |
Print ISSN | 1359-6748 |
Electronic ISSN | 1747-5112 |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 19 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 33-44 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2014.872918 |
Keywords | Further education, Professionalism, Professional standards, Literacy studies, Teacher training. |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1469604 |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Research in Post-Compulsory Education on 05/03/2014, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13596748.2014.872918.
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