ERIC Number: EJ1408916
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0159-6306
EISSN: EISSN-1469-3739
Recruiting the "Quality Teacher": Equity, Faith, and Passion
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v45 n1 p1-13 2024
The figure of the teacher is becoming increasingly significant in schooling systems around the globe. In this article, we consider how the market-oriented system of schooling in the Australian state of New South Wales may be reflecting and (re)shaping understandings of who teachers are and should be. To do this, we present a corpus-assisted analysis of advertisements for teaching positions gathered across the public, Catholic and independent school sectors, to explore how schools and school sectors construct images of the "good" or "quality" teacher. Findings indicate a stronger focus on the "person" of the teacher in independent schools; and a surprising lack of pedagogical concerns within any sector. Our contribution is novel in first, using a relatively untapped data source to explore how the figure of the teacher is constructed in the public domain; and second, demonstrating the reciprocal relationship between teachers and schools in the marketing of educational products.
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Catholic Schools, Private Schools, Advertising, Labor Market, Teacher Characteristics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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