In the past decade, notions of teacher professionalism have been associated with increased
accountability, standards, performance assessments, and teacher testing, and impacted by …

Teacher professionalism in England may be considered to have been shaped by the set of
professional standards, and the accompanying statutory performance management system …

In response to wide ranging social and political conditions a variety of school reform and
teacher professional development activities have been implemented across Australia with …

This paper explores some of the complexities inherent in researching teacher'
professionalism', since the notion itself is socially constructed and is subject to geographical …

Abstract Changes in teacher education are part of a much broader change in the nature of
educational policy‐making in England and Wales. Successive Conservative Governments …

This article connects with an international debate around the place of professional standards
in educational policy targeted at enhancing teacher quality, with associated implications for …

Theoretical and political perspectives on the nature of professionalism in teaching are
abundant, but little is known about the views of teachers themselves. We asked primary and …

Teacher professional standards and accountability are today writ large on the landscape of
both schooling and teacher education practice around the world. This paper explores some …

This article brings together two studies which contribute to the examination of the nature of
professionalism in education by focusing on the perspectives of two under-researched …

Contemporary educational reform–including both marketisation and centralisation, but also
a new emphasis on the involvement of a wider range of stakeholders–has resulted in a …