Contesting quality teaching: Teachers' pragmatic agency and the debate about teacher evaluation
D Anagnostopoulos, S Wilson… - Teaching and Teacher …, 2021 - Elsevier
Teaching and Teacher Education, 2021•Elsevier
Global attention on teacher evaluation increasingly compels teachers to enter public
debates about their work. Drawing on pragmatic sociology, the authors present analyses of
media texts from 2008 to 2017 that identify the justification frameworks teachers mobilized to
critique a prominent US evaluation policy and defend teaching as a complex craft.
Policymakers, reformers, and researchers, however, re-articulated teachers' critiques,
narrowly focusing the debate on teachers' technical effectiveness. The study contributes to …
debates about their work. Drawing on pragmatic sociology, the authors present analyses of
media texts from 2008 to 2017 that identify the justification frameworks teachers mobilized to
critique a prominent US evaluation policy and defend teaching as a complex craft.
Policymakers, reformers, and researchers, however, re-articulated teachers' critiques,
narrowly focusing the debate on teachers' technical effectiveness. The study contributes to …
Abstract
Global attention on teacher evaluation increasingly compels teachers to enter public debates about their work. Drawing on pragmatic sociology, the authors present analyses of media texts from 2008 to 2017 that identify the justification frameworks teachers mobilized to critique a prominent US evaluation policy and defend teaching as a complex craft. Policymakers, reformers, and researchers, however, re-articulated teachers’ critiques, narrowly focusing the debate on teachers’ technical effectiveness. The study contributes to scholarship on teacher evaluation and the mediatization of teaching by illuminating teachers’ pragmatic capacity to shape public understanding of teaching.
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