Effective schools or improving schools are fashionable terms in the rhetoric of recent
education movements, yet the heart of these movements is often more to do with teaching …

What purpose is served by renovation or redesign of professionalism, and how successful a
process is it likely to be? This article addresses these questions by examining the …

This chapter focuses on the key components of the curriculum of Initial Teacher education
(ITE) and the ways in which it has been changing over the last years internationally. In …

First Published in 2004. This text will enable teachers to analyze their own experience of in-
service work. It offers tools for evaluating a focused aspect of work, and will help teachers to …

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 …

This book examines the effects of reforms in some countries' national education systems,
noting that far from improving education, they have often made it more difficult for teachers to …

The research reported in this article investigates the changing demography of the teaching
force at a time of increasing accountability. The study offers analysis of qualitative data to …

This book offers a critical and deconstructive account of global discourses on education,
arguing that these overblown 'hypernarratives' are neither economically, technically nor …

Teacher Subject Identity in Professional Practice focuses on a key, but neglected, element of
a teacher's identity: that of their subject expertise. Studies of teachers' professional practice …

This article contends that, in spite of a recent upsurge in writing on non-native English-
speaking teachers (NNESTs) in the global discourse of English language teaching (ELT) …