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Article: Compliance, resistance and pragmatism: The (re)construction of schoolteacher identities in a period of intensive educational reform

TitleCompliance, resistance and pragmatism: The (re)construction of schoolteacher identities in a period of intensive educational reform
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Issue Date2002
PublisherRoutledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/01411926.asp
Citation
British Educational Research Journal, 2002, v. 28 n. 4, p. 551-565 How to Cite?
AbstractDrawing on empirical research, this article explores the ways in which schoolteachers 'reposition' themselves in the face of rapid and extensive educational change, some of which they may view with ambivalence or hostility. Arguing that local responses to public policy are prompting teachers to become increasingly pragmatic in their philosophies and practice, the article identifies and illustrates two distinct forms of pragmatism: 'principled pragmatism', through which teachers who feel generally positive towards recent reforms feel able to strengthen and affirm their pedagogic identities by drawing eclectically on a range of educational practices and traditions; and 'contingent pragmatism', adopted by teachers in oppositional orientations to reform, whereby enforced reactions to policy change take on something of the function of a survival strategy. The article suggests that a consequence-and possible cause-of the adoption of self-consciously pragmatic teacher identities is the effective depoliticisation of teachers through an internalisation of current dominant discourses of compromise.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/179723
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2023 Impact Factor: 3.0
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.102
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