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Includes case studies across international contexts that illustrate the concepts in the book
Bridges and aligns multiple domains of teacher and teaching policy
Provides a range of data that enables an exploration of multiple scales of policy and practice
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Drawing from case studies from the USA, UK and Australia, it illustrates how a coalescence around metrics, standards and compliance is producing increasingly restricted notions of teachers and teaching. It shows how the rationalities and techniques associated with accountability and standardisation are limiting the possibilities for multiple conceptualisations of teaching and teachers to exist or emerge. Using pluralism as the main framework, it challenges the dangers associated with rigid compliance and alignment and argues that pluralism can help secure schools as socially and culturally responsive to the needs of the community.
Keywords
- Pluralism in teacher policy
- Fundamentalism of metrics and standards in teacher policy
- Metrics and standards in teacher education
- Teacher evaluation and the TAP system
- Teacher evaluation and T-TESS
- Teachers and teaching in the US
- Teachers and teaching in the UK
- Alignment between teacher preparation
- Professional development, evaluation and teacher leadership
- Imagining pluralism in teacher policy
- Political theory and teachers and teaching
- Restricting possibilities for alternative conceptualisations
- Rigid accountability
- Compliance-based teacher policy
- Teachers and teaching in Australia
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Authors and Affiliations
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Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
Jessica Holloway
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Metrics, Standards and Alignment in Teacher Policy
Book Subtitle: Critiquing Fundamentalism and Imagining Pluralism
Authors: Jessica Holloway
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4814-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4813-4Published: 08 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-4816-5Published: 08 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-4814-1Published: 07 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 168
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education