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Critical literacy and critically reflective writing: navigating gender and sexual diversity 批判性读写和批判性反思写作:导航性别和性别多样性
IF 0.9 4区 教育学
English Teaching-Practice and Critique Pub Date : 2019-10-14 DOI: 10.1108/ETPC-09-2018-0082
Navan N. Govender
{"title":"Critical literacy and critically reflective writing: navigating gender and sexual diversity","authors":"Navan N. Govender","doi":"10.1108/ETPC-09-2018-0082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/ETPC-09-2018-0082","url":null,"abstract":"PurposeIn this article, the author draws on Janks’ territory beyond reason as well as literature on (critically) reflective writing. The purpose of this paper is to explore how a space for personal, affective writing in the classroom might enable teachers, students and learners to 1) come to terms with gender as a social practice, 2) locate themselves in the relations of power, marginalisation and subversion being explored and 3) negotiate the internal contradictions that come with personal and social transformation. The author presents and unpacks how second-year undergraduate Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) students at a prominent university in Johannesburg, South Africa, unpacked issues of gender and sexual diversity in a critical literacy course. This paper focuses on students’ completion of a reflective writing task but is situated in a broader study on critical literacy and gender and sexual diversity. The findings suggest the need for sustained critically reflective writing in the classroom and continued research on critical literacy as both a rationalist and affective project. Furthermore, the findings suggest ways in which critically reflective writing was used to create a space where students could place themselves into the content and relations of power being studied and identify and unpack the ways in which discourses of power have informed their own identities over time, with the intent to develop the capacity to position themselves in more socially conscious ways. This study, therefore, illustrates only a fraction of how students might use reflective writing to come to terms with controversial topics, place themselves in the systems of power, explore marginalisation or subversion and negotiate the internal contradictions of transformation. However, the data also suggest that there is potential for this practice to have a greater role in classroom practice, a deeper effect on learners’ understanding of self and society and further research on the impact of critical reflection in the classroom.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, the author presents and unpacks how second-year undergraduate B.Ed. students at a prominent university in Johannesburg, South Africa, unpacked issues of gender and sexual diversity through reflective writing in a critical literacy course.FindingsThe findings suggest the need for sustained critically reflective writing in the classroom and continued research in critical literacy as both a rationalist and affective project. The students who participated in this research revealed the ways in which critically reflective writing might be used to create a space where students place themselves into the content and relations of power being studied, identify and unpack the ways in which discourses of power have informed their own identities over time, and, perhaps, develop the capacity to position themselves in more socially conscious ways.Research limitations/implicationsWhile the findings reveal the need for cont","PeriodicalId":45885,"journal":{"name":"English Teaching-Practice and Critique","volume":"365 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77793438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Embodied refusals and choreographic criticalities 具体化的拒绝和编排上的批评
IF 0.9 4区 教育学
English Teaching-Practice and Critique Pub Date : 2019-09-23 DOI: 10.1108/etpc-03-2019-0031
B. Krone
{"title":"Embodied refusals and choreographic criticalities","authors":"B. Krone","doi":"10.1108/etpc-03-2019-0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/etpc-03-2019-0031","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper aims to describe the work of a group of seventh-grade boys in a middle school superhero storytelling project. In this project, the boys, one of whom identified as Latino and five of whom identified as Black, created a voiceless, faceless, raceless superhero named “Mute.” Using a Black feminist theoretical framework, the author considers how the boys authored embodied moments in the construction of their character and in a basketball scene. The author argues that within the narrated space of the story, embodiment functioned as a critical tool for authoring spaces that thwarted and bypassed dominant social narratives.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The white, female, university-affiliated author was a participant-researcher in the “Mute” group’s ten storytelling sessions. The ethnographic data set collected included fieldnotes, recordings and copies of all the writing and images of the group. The author uses this data to conduct a narrative analysis of the Mute story.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The author suggests that the group’s authoring of embodiment and choreography in their story makes space outside of the binary stances often available in traditional critical analyses. Instead, the group’s attention to embodied aspects of their character(s) allowed them to refuse either/or positions of such stances and construct a textured reality that existed beyond these bounds.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000Black feminist theorists have warned that critical readings are potentially essentializing, risking a reification of the same systems they hope to overturn. The Mute group’s invention of a superhero character and their use of authored embodiment deflected such essentializing readings to imagine a new, more just (story) world. Thus, the author recommends an increased attention to how students are writing and reading embodiment to fully see the everyday ways they are critically working both against and beyond the social narratives that organize their lives.\u0000","PeriodicalId":45885,"journal":{"name":"English Teaching-Practice and Critique","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85471277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Expanding repertoires of resistance 不断扩大的抵抗力
IF 0.9 4区 教育学
English Teaching-Practice and Critique Pub Date : 2019-06-03 DOI: 10.1108/ETPC-11-2018-0114
K. Taylor, E. Taylor, Paul Hartman, Rebecca Woodard, Andrea Vaughan, Rick Coppola, Daniel J. Rocha, Emily Machado
{"title":"Expanding repertoires of resistance","authors":"K. Taylor, E. Taylor, Paul Hartman, Rebecca Woodard, Andrea Vaughan, Rick Coppola, Daniel J. Rocha, Emily Machado","doi":"10.1108/ETPC-11-2018-0114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/ETPC-11-2018-0114","url":null,"abstract":"PurposeThis paper aims to examine how a collaborative narrative inquiry focused on cultivating critical English Language Arts (ELA) pedagogies supported teacher agency, or “the capacity of actors to critically shape their own responsiveness to problematic situations” (Emirbayer and Mische, 1998, p. 971).Design/methodology/approachSituated in a semester-long inquiry group, eight k-16 educators used narrative inquiry processes (Clandinin, 1992) to write and collectively analyze (Ezzy, 2002) stories describing personal experiences that brought them to critical ELA pedagogies. They engaged in three levels of analysis across the eight narratives, including open coding, thematic identification, and identification of how the narrative inquiry impacted their classroom practices.FindingsAcross the narratives, the authors identify what aspects of the ELA reading, writing and languaging curriculum emerged as problematic; situate themselves in systems of oppression and privilege; and examine how processes of critical narrative inquiry contributed to their capacities to respond to these issues.Research limitations/implicationsCollaborative narrative inquiry between teachers and teacher educators (Sjostrom and McCoyne, 2017) can be a powerful method to cultivate critical pedagogies.Practical implicationsTeachers across grade levels, schools, disciplines and backgrounds can collectively organize to cultivate critical ELA pedagogies.Originality/valueAlthough coordinated opportunities to engage in critical inquiry work across k-16 contexts are rare, the authors believe that the knowledge, skills and confidence they gained through this professional inquiry sensitized them to oppressive curricular norms and expanded their repertoires of resistance.","PeriodicalId":45885,"journal":{"name":"English Teaching-Practice and Critique","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82674060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 5
Promoting teachers’ agency and creative teaching through research 以研究性促进教师能动性和创造性教学
IF 0.9 4区 教育学
English Teaching-Practice and Critique Pub Date : 2019-06-03 DOI: 10.1108/ETPC-11-2018-0107
A. Cloonan, K. Hutchison, L. Paatsch
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引用次数: 5
Polic(y)ing time and curriculum: how teachers critically negotiate restrictive policies 政策(时间)和课程:教师如何批判性地协商限制性政策
IF 0.9 4区 教育学
English Teaching-Practice and Critique Pub Date : 2019-06-03 DOI: 10.1108/ETPC-12-2018-0116
Christy Wessel‐Powell, Beth A. Buchholz, Cassie J. Brownell
{"title":"Polic(y)ing time and curriculum: how teachers critically negotiate restrictive policies","authors":"Christy Wessel‐Powell, Beth A. Buchholz, Cassie J. Brownell","doi":"10.1108/ETPC-12-2018-0116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/ETPC-12-2018-0116","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The purpose of this paper is to theorize teacher agency as enacted through a P/policymaking lens in three elementary classrooms. Big-P Policies are formal, top-down school reform policies legislated, created, implemented and regulated by national, state and local governments. Yet, Big-P policies are not the only policies enacted in literacies classrooms. Rather, little-p policies or teachers’ local, personal and creative enactments of their values and expertise are also in play in daily classroom decisions. Little p-policies are teachers doing their best in response to their students and school contexts.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000Adapting elements of discursive analysis, this interpretive inquiry is designed to examine textual artifacts, situated alongside classroom events and particular local practices, to explicate what teachers’ policymaking enactments regarding time and curriculum look like across three distinct contexts. Using three elementary classrooms as examples, this paper provides analytic snapshots illustrating teachers’ policymaking to solve problems of practice posed by state and school policies for curriculum, and for use of time at school.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The findings suggest that teachers ration (aliz)ed use of time in ways that enacted personal politics, to prioritize children’s personal growth and well-being alongside teachers’ values, even when use of time became “inefficient.” An artifact from three focal classrooms illustrates particular practices – scheduling, connecting and modeling – teachers leveraged to enact little p-policy. Teachers’ little p-policy enactment is teacher agency, used to disrupt temporal and curricular policies.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This framing is valuable because little-p policymaking works to disrupt and negotiate temporal and curricular mandates imposed on classrooms from the outside.\u0000","PeriodicalId":45885,"journal":{"name":"English Teaching-Practice and Critique","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89372424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 15
Agency as the achievement of reform ownership 代理权作为改革的成果
IF 0.9 4区 教育学
English Teaching-Practice and Critique Pub Date : 2019-06-03 DOI: 10.1108/ETPC-12-2018-0127
Lauren Godfrey, C. Olson
{"title":"Agency as the achievement of reform ownership","authors":"Lauren Godfrey, C. Olson","doi":"10.1108/ETPC-12-2018-0127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/ETPC-12-2018-0127","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how, through the cultivation of reform ownership in the professional development (PD) program, the Pathway Project, agency was achieved for the development of teacher professionalism and teacher expertise in the cases of Mrs. Cruz and Mrs. Keyes. This, in turn, provided opportunities to advance student learning. Design/methodology/approach Multiple sources of data (focused classroom observations, semi-structured interviews and collected artifacts) were analyzed through a case study approach to understand the processes by which an agentic context materialized for these two teachers. Findings The authors identified the following three stages in the cultivation of reform ownership in the cases of Mrs. Cruz and Mrs. Keyes: emerging; developing; and deepening. Each of these stages proved critical to the achievement of agency for the development of teacher professionalism, teacher expertise and student learning. Originality/value The cases of Mrs. Cruz and Mrs. Keyes offer a renewed vision of the ways in which teachers can achieve agency in the current reform environment. Given the proliferation of reform efforts within today’s educational landscape, their cases suggest that PD developers take seriously the responsibility of cultivating reform ownership for the achievement of agency and deep and lasting change.","PeriodicalId":45885,"journal":{"name":"English Teaching-Practice and Critique","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77126966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Teacher agency in English language arts teaching: a scoping review of the literature 英语语言艺术教学中的教师代理:文献综述
IF 0.9 4区 教育学
English Teaching-Practice and Critique Pub Date : 2019-06-03 DOI: 10.1108/ETPC-05-2019-0080
J. Chisholm, Jennifer Alford, L. Halliday, Fannie M. Cox
{"title":"Teacher agency in English language arts teaching: a scoping review of the literature","authors":"J. Chisholm, Jennifer Alford, L. Halliday, Fannie M. Cox","doi":"10.1108/ETPC-05-2019-0080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/ETPC-05-2019-0080","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper aims to examine ways in which English language arts (ELA) teachers have exercised agency in response to policy changes that have been shaped by neoliberal education agendas that seek to further advance standardization and the primacy of measurability of teaching and learning.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The authors posed the following research questions of related literature: Under what conditions, in what ways and to what ends do teachers exercise agency within ELA classroom teaching? Through five stages of systematized analysis, this scoping review of 21 studies maps the evidence base.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Structural, material, interpersonal and pedagogical issues both constrained and supported agency. Teachers covertly exercised agency to be responsive to students’ needs; in some instances, teachers’ agentive practices reinforced institutionally sanctioned methods. Teachers’ agentive action aimed to combat the deprofessionalization of the field, foster innovative curriculum approaches and challenge stereotypes about students. The authors also found a range of definitions of agency in the research, some of which are more generative than others.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This paper addresses a gap in the research literature by illuminating contexts, consequences and conundrums of ELA teacher agency. The authors documented the range of structural, cultural and material conditions within which teachers exercise agency; the subversive, collective and small- and large-scale ways in which teachers realize agency; and the potentially favorable or unfavorable consequences to which these efforts are directed. In doing so, the authors also problematize the range of definitions of agency in the literature and call for greater attention to conceptual clarity around agency in research. As literacy researchers illuminate work that disrupts the marginalization of teachers’ agency, this scoping review maps the field’s knowledge base of agency in ELA teaching and sets up a future research agenda to promote the professionalization of teaching and advocacy for English teachers.\u0000","PeriodicalId":45885,"journal":{"name":"English Teaching-Practice and Critique","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77549400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 13
Adaptive agency 自适应机构
IF 0.9 4区 教育学
English Teaching-Practice and Critique Pub Date : 2019-06-03 DOI: 10.1108/etpc-03-2019-0030
A. Goodwyn
{"title":"Adaptive agency","authors":"A. Goodwyn","doi":"10.1108/etpc-03-2019-0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/etpc-03-2019-0030","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper aims to introduce the concept of adaptive agency and illustrate its emergence in the field of English teaching in a number of countries using England over the past 30 years as a case study. It examines how the exceptional flexibility of English as school subject has brought many external impositions whilst its teachers have evolved remarkable adaptivity.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000It proposes several models of agency and their different modes, focussing finally on adaptive agency as a model that has emerged over a 30-year period. It considers aspects of this development across a number of countries, mostly English speaking ones, but its chief case is that of England. It is principally a theoretical paper drawing on Phenomenology, Critical Realism and later modernist interpretations of Darwinian Theory, but it is grounded by drawing on two recent empirical projects to illustrate English teachers’ current agency. It offers a fresh overview of how agency and accountability have interacted within a matrix of official policy and constraint.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Adaptive agency has become a necessary aspect of teacher expertise. Such a mode of working creates great emotional strains and tensions, leading to many teachers leaving the profession. However, many English teachers whilst feeling controlled in the matrix of power and the panopticon of surveillance, remain resilient and positive about the future of the subject.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000This is to some extent a personal and reflexive account of a lived history, supported by research and other evidence.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000Adaptive agency enables teachers to conceptualise the frustrations of the role but to celebrate how they expertly use their agency where they can. It makes their work and struggle more comprehensible. In providing the concept of harmonious practice, it offers the hope of a return to more satisfying professional lives.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This paper offers an original concept, adaptive agency, and discusses other valuable conceptualisations of agency and accountability. It combines a unique individual perspective with a fresh overview of the past three decades as experienced by English teachers in England.\u0000","PeriodicalId":45885,"journal":{"name":"English Teaching-Practice and Critique","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81137076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Conditions that mediate teacher agency during assessment reform 考核改革中教师代理中介的条件
IF 0.9 4区 教育学
English Teaching-Practice and Critique Pub Date : 2019-06-03 DOI: 10.1108/ETPC-11-2018-0108
Jill Willis, K. McGraw, Linda J. Graham
{"title":"Conditions that mediate teacher agency during assessment reform","authors":"Jill Willis, K. McGraw, Linda J. Graham","doi":"10.1108/ETPC-11-2018-0108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/ETPC-11-2018-0108","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000A new senior curriculum and assessment policy in Queensland, Australia, is changing the conditions for teaching and learning. The purpose of this study was to consider the personal, structural and cultural conditions that mediated the agency of Senior English teachers as they negotiated these changes. Agency is conceptualised as opportunities for choice in action arising from pedagogic negotiations with students within contexts where teachers’ decision-making is circumscribed by other pressures.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000An action inquiry project was conducted with English teachers and students in two secondary schools as they began to adjust their practices in readiness for changes to Queensland senior assessment. Four English teachers (two per school) designed a 10-week unit of work in Senior English with the aim of enhancing students’ critical and creative agency. Five action/reflection cycles occurred over six months with interviews conducted at each stage to trace how teachers were making decisions to prioritise student agency.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Participating teachers drew on a variety of structural, personal and cultural resources, including previous experiences, time to develop shared understandings and the responsiveness of students that mediated their teacher agency. Teachers’ ability to exert agentic influence beyond their own classroom was affected by the perceived flexibility of established resources and the availability of social support to share student success.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000These findings indicate that a range of conditions affected the development of teacher agency when they sought to design assessment to prioritise student agency. The variety of enabling conditions that need to be considered when supporting teacher and student agency is an important contribution to theories of agency in schools, and studies of teacher policy enactment in systems moving away from localised control to more remote and centralised quality assurance processes.\u0000","PeriodicalId":45885,"journal":{"name":"English Teaching-Practice and Critique","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80515392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 8
Rights, duties and spaces of agency amidst high-stakes testing 高风险考试中的权利、义务和代理空间
IF 0.9 4区 教育学
English Teaching-Practice and Critique Pub Date : 2019-06-03 DOI: 10.1108/etpc-11-2018-0098
Laura A. Taylor
{"title":"Rights, duties and spaces of agency amidst high-stakes testing","authors":"Laura A. Taylor","doi":"10.1108/etpc-11-2018-0098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/etpc-11-2018-0098","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000By recognizing high-stakes testing as a key constraint to teacher agency, this paper aims to provide a close analysis of one teacher’s testing narrative to illustrate how emerging positioning is relative to high-stakes testing shapes perception of pedagogical agency.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000Data were generated through a series of semi-structured interviews with an early career fourth-grade teacher, Ms Moore, in a school facing pressure to raise test scores. Using theoretical lenses of narrative positioning and a linguistic anthropological centering of constraint and emergence, 67 narratives of accountability were analyzed, with particular focus on how Ms Moore positioned herself relative to other actors involved in high-stakes testing and the consequent rights and duties these positions afforded.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000In narrating the constraints of high-stakes testing, Ms Moore positioned herself relative to three groups involved in high-stakes testing: “purposefully tricky” test creators, “disjointed” administrators and “worried” students. The rights and duties associated with three positions varied with respect to two dimensions – proximity and hierarchy – in turn providing her distinct resources for responding to the pedagogical constraints of high-stakes testing.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000Teachers might use positioning analysis as a tool to locate possibilities for agency amidst high-stakes testing, both by exploring the resources afforded by their positioning and by considering how alternative positions might afford different resources.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000These findings suggest that high-stakes testing serves as a dynamic and perhaps malleable constraint to teacher agency. Teacher positioning, particularly relative to hierarchy and proximity, provides possible resource for responding to such constraints.\u0000","PeriodicalId":45885,"journal":{"name":"English Teaching-Practice and Critique","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83952442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
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