TY - GEN
T1 - A difficult Realisation
T2 - The proletarianisation of higher education-based teacher educators
AU - Ellis, Viv
AU - Glackin, Melissa
AU - Heighes, Deb
AU - Norman, Mel
AU - Nicol, Sandra
AU - Norris, Kath
AU - Spencer, Ingrid
AU - McNicholl, Jane
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Written collaboratively with research participants, this article reports the main findings of the Work of Teacher Education project that studied the labour of 13 higher education-based teacher educators in England and Scotland over the course of a year. The priority of maintaining relationships with schools (and between schools and student teachers) is noted and ‘relationship maintenance’ is advanced as a defining characteristic of teacher educators’ work. Policy changes and their impact on institutional structures and roles, variations in organisational arrangements and research activity are also discussed. The paper concludes by arguing that a new conceptualisation of the work of teacher educators as academic work is essential for the discipline and higher education institutions as a whole.
AB - Written collaboratively with research participants, this article reports the main findings of the Work of Teacher Education project that studied the labour of 13 higher education-based teacher educators in England and Scotland over the course of a year. The priority of maintaining relationships with schools (and between schools and student teachers) is noted and ‘relationship maintenance’ is advanced as a defining characteristic of teacher educators’ work. Policy changes and their impact on institutional structures and roles, variations in organisational arrangements and research activity are also discussed. The paper concludes by arguing that a new conceptualisation of the work of teacher educators as academic work is essential for the discipline and higher education institutions as a whole.
U2 - 10.1080/02607476.2013.799845
DO - 10.1080/02607476.2013.799845
M3 - Article
SN - 0260-7476
VL - 39
SP - 266
EP - 280
JO - JOURNAL OF EDUCATION FOR TEACHING
JF - JOURNAL OF EDUCATION FOR TEACHING
ER -