教职专业化的困境与出路：与医职比较的视角

提高教职的专业性远比提高医职的专业性要难,提高教职的专业性既需要教育界努力作为和教师勤勉奋进,又需要政府积极作为和举全社会之力,还需要提高全社会的教育能力和理性水平.     

Sensing as an ethical dimension of teacher professionality

The purpose of this article is to theoretically discuss how teacher professionality, as an aspect of teacher professionalism, can be understood in relation to the notion of sensing within the ethics of alterity and the ethics of dissensus, both of which express a desire to contest the various forms of violence in society. Subsequently, in this case the conceptualisation of sensing can be regarded as highly important for introducing a relatively new dimension into the field of teacher professionality and, as such, the nuancing of teachers’ professional judgements. The results suggest that the notion of sensing in teachers’ judgements: (1) troubles given categories; (2) highlights the vulnerability of educational relationships; (3) leads to unlimited responsibilities amongst teachers; and (4) obliges teachers to constantly re-evaluate their sensed judgements for the sake of others.     

Education,Measurement and the Professions: Reclaiming a space for democratic professionality in education

Abstract

In this article, I explore the impact of the contemporary culture of measurement on education as a professional field. I focus particularly on the democratic dimensions of professionalism, which includes both the democratic qualities of professional action in education itself and the way in which education, as a profession, supports the wider democratic cause. I show how an initial authoritarian conception of professionalism was opened up in the 1960s and 1970s towards more democratic and more inclusive forms of professional action. I then show how, in the wake of the transformation of the welfare state and the rise of neo-liberal forms of governing, the democratic dimension of professionalism became distorted. I discuss three distortions: having to do with the position of clients, the nature of accountability and the status of professional knowledge. While at first sight, the developments in each of these areas can be seen as furthering the democratisation of the professions, I argue that in fact they have eroded the democratic dimension of the professions and show the contribution of the culture of measurement to this erosion process. In the final step of my argument, I suggest how a more democratic mode of professional action might be regained and how such a mode of professional action might contribute to wider processes of democratisation.     

西部农村教师专业性分析

对甘肃省农村2212名中小学教师调查发现,教师的专业性具有以下特征：教师热心投入教育,但经济社会地位不够理想,职业忠诚度不高 教育理念发生重要转型,体现教育面向未来的精神 学生被动与主动教学方式并存,主动方式更受教师认同 教师具有很大自主权,但仍受到较大规限 教师合作环境较好,但需要提高合作的实效性。总体而言,教师的专业性正从传统向现代转变。     

Conceptions and knowledge about childhood in initial teacher training: Changes in recent decades and their impact on teacher professionality, and on schooling in childhood

This paper looks at changes in the conceptions of childhood in recent decades, and their contribution to the understanding of the sociabilities and subjectivities that are moulded in school, and how these relate to teachers' initial training. An overview of social changes in late modernity is given, and their impact on teacher professionality and the conception of childhood considered. The results are given of a study on conceptions of childhood, expressed in or related to the initial training of teachers in the 1st Basic Education Cycle (CEB), in Portugal since April 1974.     

Understanding new hybrid professions: Bourdieu,illusio and the case of public service interpreters

Public spending reductions across the advanced capitalist world are creating new professions that have a ‘hybrid’ status and/or role. However, research on professional learning has paid little attention to them. This qualitative study of one such profession, public service interpreting (PSI), addresses that lacuna. The paper focuses on interpreters’ interactions with other professionals and with migrants using public services. It evokes Bourdieu’s important but neglected concept of illusio – the extent to which players invest commitment in the stakes of a field – to frame the analysis. This highlights the lack of autonomy for PSI, interpreters’ own ambiguous illusio, and their conflicts with the illusio of more powerful professions with which they must work. We conclude that there is a need for more research on the power relations between new hybrid professions and established professions, and that Bourdieu’s illusio is a potent analytical concept for this task.     

Pre-service teachers’ job-related perceptions of teaching in rural areas: a study of the free teacher education programme in mainland China

ABSTRACT

This article examines the development of pre-service teachers’ job-related perceptions of teaching in rural areas in the Free Teacher Education (FTE) programme in mainland China. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 22 teacher educators and 11 pre-service teachers, this study found that pre-service teachers’ perceptions were constructed through relative perspectives, professionality orientation, and realistic expectations during the process of FTE teacher education. Pre-service teachers employed utilitarian concerns to increase access to prestigious universities to the detriment of their academic interests. The professionality orientation of the FTE programme held a profile of isolated curriculum modules, urban-centred approach, and theory-practice divide, resulting in pre-service teachers’ fragmented body of knowledge and weak rural consciousness. Although participants saw significant improvement in living and working conditions of rural schools, their negative perceptions were magnified due to this weak rural consciousness. This study argues that the FTE programme needs to integrate separated courses and embed the components of rural settings in addition to current financial incentives.     

Kurt lewin at the tavistock institute

Notions of action research and of integrating object relations and field psychologies have exerted a steady influence on both the initial formation of The Tavistock Institute in London and on the subsequent 60 years of its professional identity and approach to work. These notions can be tied directly to early scientific contact with Kurt Lewin, and indirectly through the Lewinian philosophy that staff incorporated into an overall ‘house style’. From 1990, however, changes in the Institute's funding environment undermined this historical source of integrity. Recent developments to reclaim and update the roots of Kurt Lewin at The Tavistock Institute.     

西部农村教师专业性分析

对甘肃省农村2212名中小学教师调查发现,教师的专业性具有以下特征:教师热心投入教育,但经济社会地位不够理想,职业忠诚度不高;教育理念发生重要转型,体现教育面向未来的精神;学生被动与主动教学方式并存,主动方式更受教师认同;教师具有很大自主权,但仍受到较大规限;教师合作环境较好,但需要提高合作的实效性。总体而言,教师的专业性正从传统向现代转变。     

西部农村教师专业性分析

对甘肃省农村2212名中小学教师调查发现,教师的专业性具有以下特征:教师热心投入教育,但经济社会地位不够理想,职业忠诚度不高;教育理念发生重要转型,体现教育面向未来的精神;学生被动与主动教学方式并存,主动方式更受教师认同;教师具有很大自主权,但仍受到较大规限;教师合作环境较好,但需要提高合作的实效性。总体而言,教师的专业性正从传统向现代转变。