Australian Teacher Educators Responding to Policy Discourses of Quality

Autor/inn/en	Larsen, Ellen; Mockler, Nicole
Titel	Australian Teacher Educators Responding to Policy Discourses of Quality
Quelle	In: Educational Review, 75 (2023) 6, S.1063-1083 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Larsen, Ellen) ORCID (Mockler, Nicole)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1911
DOI	10.1080/00131911.2021.2007056
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Teacher Educators; Teacher Attitudes; Educational Policy; Educational Change; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Lehrerverhalten; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Australien
Abstract	Political appetite for neoliberal education policy has problematised teacher education in a number of countries, including Australia, the US and England. In Australia, dominant policy discourses of quality normalise the regulation and standardisation of teacher education and position teacher educators within a deficit model of education reform. Such positioning has been shown to have a deleterious impact on professional status, dismantling complex conceptualisations of teacher educators' work. Framed by key tenets of positioning theory and conceptualisations of policy enactment, this study investigated, using online semi-structured interviews, the ways in which 16 teacher educators in one Australian university positioned policy as "other", and the ways in which they felt they could or should respond. It found that teacher educators position policy, and engage in the policy process, in complex and varied ways. While many positioned policy as an intruder, with the potential to do harm to the profession, others had made choices that positioned policy as a tool for innovative imagining for programme renewal. Findings also highlight the potential appetite for collaborative positioning between policy makers and teacher educators as partners. These findings have significant implications for future approaches to re-shaping the teacher education policy space both in Australia and beyond. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01