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The neo-liberal turn in education policy: Teacher licensing and the status of teachers as pedagogic experts

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Author

  • Margareta Nilsson-Lindström
  • Dennis Beach

Summary, in English

The teacher license has been introduced at a time when the content and institutional framing of teacher education and the conditions of the teaching profession have changed radically. New forms of political, administrative and financial control have changed the governing and staffing of schools. By analysing recent school policy we show how a neoliberal logic concerning a free school market was docked onto extended State bureaucratic control in one school reform package. Following Freidson (2001) the developments that have ensued suggest that the internal logic of professionalism is being challenged by external and competing logics of rational-legal bureaucracy and the free labour market. The question of whether teacher licensing, as expected from teacher associations, will become a successful means for monopolising teaching as occupation and a successful professionalization strategy for raising teachers' status as pedagogic experts is therefore very much open to questioning.

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

1-18

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Sociology

Keywords

  • teacher licensing
  • profession
  • professionalization strategies
  • sociology
  • sociologi

Conference name

IUC Dubrovnic Conference 2014

Conference date

2014-04-22 - 2014-04-25

Status

Unpublished