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Article: Becoming and re-becoming a teacher in the Arabian Peninsula: Amal's story of hope

TitleBecoming and re-becoming a teacher in the Arabian Peninsula: Amal's story of hope
Authors
KeywordsSchool reform
Teacher education
Teacher narrative
United Arab Emirates
Issue Date2011
PublisherRoutledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13664530.asp
Citation
Teacher Development, 2011, v. 15 n. 2, p. 141-155 How to Cite?
AbstractThis paper is an account of the early career narrative of a young Emirati teacher, Amal, against the backdrop of the radical reformation of state schooling underway in the United Arab Emirates. Amal's decision to become a teacher was influenced by negative school experiences in her own childhood, thus fuelling her desire to 'have a hand in changing things'. Although one of the very first of her compatriots to acquire an appropriate initial English language teaching qualification, within a few years of starting to teach she finds her qualification obsolete. Amal's story of becoming and re-becoming a teacher offers unique insights into the shifting sands of school reform and the challenges it poses to local teachers, and highlights the need for capacity building for a sustainable, locally grounded, quality state school system. © 2011 Teacher Development.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/137577
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2023 Impact Factor: 0.8
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.465
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dc.description.abstractThis paper is an account of the early career narrative of a young Emirati teacher, Amal, against the backdrop of the radical reformation of state schooling underway in the United Arab Emirates. Amal's decision to become a teacher was influenced by negative school experiences in her own childhood, thus fuelling her desire to 'have a hand in changing things'. Although one of the very first of her compatriots to acquire an appropriate initial English language teaching qualification, within a few years of starting to teach she finds her qualification obsolete. Amal's story of becoming and re-becoming a teacher offers unique insights into the shifting sands of school reform and the challenges it poses to local teachers, and highlights the need for capacity building for a sustainable, locally grounded, quality state school system. © 2011 Teacher Development.en_HK
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dc.subjectSchool reformen_HK
dc.subjectTeacher educationen_HK
dc.subjectTeacher narrativeen_HK
dc.subjectUnited Arab Emiratesen_HK
dc.titleBecoming and re-becoming a teacher in the Arabian Peninsula: Amal's story of hopeen_HK
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