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Towards an uncertain politics of professionalism: teacher and nurse identities in flux.
- Source :
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Journal of Education Policy . Jan2002, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p109-138. 30p. - Publication Year :
- 2002
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Abstract
- This paper is about the nature of contemporary professional identity. It looks at the ways in which 'discursive dynamics' come to re-write the professional teacher and nurse as split, plural and conflictual selves, as they seek to come to terms with a political impetus written through what the authors term an 'economy of performance' in uncertain conflict with various 'ecologies of practice'. The teacher and nurse are thus located in a complicated nexus between policy, ideology and practice. Epistemologically, the paper offers a deconstruction of professional identities, and criticizes the reductive typologies and characterizations of current professionalism. Politically, it reaches towards a more nuanced account of professional identities, stressing the local, situated and indeterminable nature of professional practice, and the inescapable dimensions of trust, diversity and creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PROFESSIONAL employees
*PROFESSIONAL ethics
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02680939
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Education Policy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 6263674
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02680930110100081