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Direct linkBrass, Jory – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2017
This article recovers a 1972 essay from James Moffett entitled "Who Counts?" that the National Council of Teachers of English commissioned at the onset of US standards and accountability reforms. The essay historicises NCTE's positions on teacher accountability by comparing its recent positions on teacher evaluation and the Common Core…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Accountability, Professional Associations, Teacher Evaluation
Holloway, Jessica; Brass, Jory – Journal of Education Policy, 2018
This article draws from Stephen Ball's work on markets, managerialism, and performativity to frame a comparative study that examines the reconstitution of the teacher-subject across a pivotal decade in which neoliberal standards and accountability reforms effected significant changes in US education. It juxtaposes two qualitative studies conducted…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, English Teachers, Accountability, Comparative Analysis
Brass, Jory – English in Australia, 2015
This article offers a brief introduction to governmentality studies and the conceptual tools that it provides to help English educators recognise the ideas and practices that education policies mobilise to steer our professions towards particular values, norms and outcomes. After a short overview of governmentality, it offers a short discussion of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government (Administrative Body), Governance, English Teachers
Brass, Jory – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2012
In this article the author explores Foucault's counter-intuitive views on intellectuals and political activism--a stance he once described as "a hyper- and pessimistic activism" (Foucault, 1983). After contrasting the activist stance of critical pedagogy with Foucault's writing on political activism, the author outlines early attempts to…
Descriptors: Activism, English Teachers, Educational Philosophy, Graduate Study
Brass, Jory – English Journal, 2012
Standard histories of NCTE attribute the organization's beginnings in 1911 to rebellious teachers who opposed college entrance requirements imposed upon them by elite colleges and universities. This narrative offers an appealing account of NCTE's history. In this article, however, the author pursues a different line of historical inquiry by…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Intellectual History, Secondary School Curriculum, English Teachers
Brass, Jory; Mecoli, Storey – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2011
This article examines the case of the Winston Society, a short-lived wikispace created by a high school English teacher to foster collaborative knowledge-making and social activism among educators. Through an examination of the wiki, questionnaires, and a focal group interview, this paper describes an examination of reasons the "Winston…
Descriptors: Barriers, Activism, English Teachers, Educational Principles
