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Heydon, Rachel; Stooke, Rosamund – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
This paper reports on a case study of teachers' expressions of their literacy-related professional development needs in a First Nations school located in Ontario, Canada. The paper construes the work of the teachers as "border work" and argues that their literacy teaching work was complex and tied to an ongoing legacy of colonialism.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Security, Educational Philosophy, Canada Natives
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Swain, Jon Michael; Cara, Olga – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2010
This paper is based on findings from a three-year longitudinal study in England called the Teacher Study which aimed to provide an analytical description of who Skills for Life (SfL) teachers are and what they do in their working lives. The main focus of the paper is teachers' career pathways and the possibilities of making a career in…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Basic Education, Career Development, Teacher Characteristics