Creating (In) Capacity: Teachers in Globalized Education Policies

dc.creator	A. Vongalis-Macrow
dc.date	2008-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:07:26Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:07:26Z
dc.identifier	1313-1958
dc.identifier	1313-9118
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/f4b257ad6ca34cf8b564490323b92440
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/11202
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/f4b257ad6ca34cf8b564490323b92440
dc.description	The relationship between education and globalization stands largely unexamined from teachers’ perspectives. By focusing on the teachers, as axiomatic to educational and pedagogical change, teachers feature in education policy and through their plight, the paper explores and challenges ideas that displacing teachers from input into educational reforms facilitates progressive implementation of new education. Demonstrating teachers' displacement from the policy making process becomes evident through the use of computer assisted qualitative research examining and drawing inference from textual evidence. Using text analysis focuses on teachers' work and how it is shaped and represented. On a policy continuum beginning from the policy makers and leading towards the policy takers, the way that teachers are represented in education policy demonstrates their limited capacity to influence policy making. By examining how teachers and their work are thus defined in macro policies, the intension is to raise concerns about the uncontested way that globalization driven educational reforms have entered the discourse of educational policy and the implications for educators. Educational policy advocates teachers’ critical role yet blurs teachers' participative capacity and leads towards the conclusion that policy obscures teachers’ agency in order to ensure that teachers are objects of policy rather than integral to policy making.
dc.language	Bulgarian
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Sofia
dc.relation	http://bjsep.org/getfile.php?id=18
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1313-1958
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1313-9118
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	Bulgarian Journal of Science and Education Policy , Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 171-187 (2008)
dc.subject	Policy analysis
dc.subject	Globalization
dc.subject	Education reform
dc.subject	Internationalization
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Creating (In) Capacity: Teachers in Globalized Education Policies
dc.type	Article