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Chasing Improved Pupil Performance: The Impact of Policy Change on School Educators' Perceptions of Their Professional Identity, the Case of Further Change in English Schools
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Hammersley-Fletcher, Linda; Qualter, Anne – British Educational Research Journal, 2010
Changes in education systems across Europe are a response to perceived needs to improve academic performance. The recent workforce remodelling agenda in England (2003-2005) reflected a growing concern that centralisation and the associated deskilling of teachers had gone too far. The resultant restructuring of the work of teachers, giving roles…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Interviews, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Tradition, Culture and Identity in the Reform of Teachers' Work in Scotland and England: Some Methodological Considerations
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Menter, Ian – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2008
This paper seeks to explore how we may best understand the relationship between teacher identity and national culture. Using Raymond Williams' concept of 'structure of feeling' as a starting point, it is suggested that creative cultural forms of representation of teachers may complement social scientific studies to give a more complete and richer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Characteristics, Professional Identity, Organizational Culture