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Disrupting the Habitus? Media Representations and Participant Experience of Teach First: An Exploratory Case Study in Wales
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Southern, Alex – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2018
Teach First is a schools-based route into teaching, where graduates are able to train while employed by 'disadvantaged' schools. Established in 2002, the charity works in partnership with teacher training providers around England and Wales. The first Teach First Cymru cohort began in 2013, at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Educationally Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Schools
Teacher Identity and Agency in an Era of Accountability
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Buchanan, Rebecca – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
The current zeitgeist in education in the USA emphasizes accountability for schools, students, and teachers, based on performance that can be easily quantified. Within this, current debates involving who should be teaching, what a good teacher looks like, and how best to evaluate and reward teachers are actually debates about the teaching…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Accountability, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Teacher Collaborative Inquiry in the Context of Literacy Education: Examining the Effects on Teacher Self-Efficacy, Instructional and Assessment Practices
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Ciampa, Katia; Gallagher, Tiffany L. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
This case study research reports on elementary (grade 8) and secondary school (grade 9) teachers' participation in job-embedded, professional learning and engagement in collaborative inquiry. Teachers constructed an inquiry-oriented media literacy unit following the collaborative inquiry model. The current study sought to investigate how…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Inquiry, Literacy, Self Efficacy