BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL  (AND OTHER DISSIDENT ACTS) Language and Literacy Teaching in an Age of Neoliberal Reform

dc.creator	ALEX KOSTOGRIZ
dc.creator	BRENTON DOECKE
dc.date	2008-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:18:59Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:18:59Z
dc.identifier	1567-6617
dc.identifier	1573-1731
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/bf307d7533304d1eafb3557206a1081e
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/19588
dc.description	Over the past two decades Australia has witnessed a range of standards-based reforms that have significantly redefined the work of language and literacy educators. Standardised literacy testing and other forms of accountability are increasingly mediating the relationships between teachers and their students. Teachers’ work is in danger of being reduced to a technical activity, a pre-packaged set of skills designed to produce mandated educational outcomes. This trend mirrors developments in other Western countries where neoliberal reforms have been introduced under the guise of improving literacy standards and rendering teachers accountable (Kostogriz, 2007; Doecke, Howie & Sawyer, 2006; Doecke, Locke & Petrosky, 2004). What are teachers to do in these conditions? How can they maintain their professionalism when they are swept up by the machinery of such reforms? This essay explores the complexities of engaging in a critical pedagogy and resisting the enormous pressure of neoliberal governments to conform to their mandates. By focusing on ‘the ideological becoming’ (Bakhtin, 1981: 341) of a small group of pre-service teachers, we shall investigate how a complicated nexus between ideology and practice shapes their professional learning, opening up the possibility of a critical perspective on the neoliberal policy landscape around them.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	IAIMTE
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dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1567-6617
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1573-1731
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature, Vol 8, Iss 4 (2008)
dc.subject	teacher education
dc.subject	literacy
dc.subject	ideology
dc.subject	neoliberalism
dc.subject	narrative inquiry
dc.subject	Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject	P1-1091
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	DOAJ:Linguistics
dc.subject	DOAJ:Languages and Literatures
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject	P1-1091
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	DOAJ:Linguistics
dc.subject	DOAJ:Languages and Literatures
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject	P1-1091
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject	P1-1091
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject	P1-1091
dc.subject	Language and Literature
dc.subject	P
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL (AND OTHER DISSIDENT ACTS) Language and Literacy Teaching in an Age of Neoliberal Reform
dc.type	article