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Deprofessionalisation of the Teaching Profession

2011
Teachers worldwide are currently experiencing ‘difficult times’ as their work is assailed, prevailed upon, reformed and restructured almost beyond recognition by forces bent upon devolution, marketisation, de-professionalisation, and intensification (Smyth, 1998).
Edward Shizha, Michael T. Kariwo
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Tackle deprofessionalisation and fragmentation

BMJ, 2010
Rees and Wells point out important difficulties facing NHS research.1 However, local governance is not the key problem. Fragmenting the NHS into competing businesses profoundly undermines research. Forcing staff to compete and struggle for survival also pushes them to seek competitive advantage by cutting corners, externalising costs on to patients ...
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Ethnic Minority Support Staff in Primary Schools: a deprofessionalised semi‐profession?

School Organisation, 1993
Abstract This paper draws upon findings from research into multiracial primary schools in three English local education authorities (LEAs) in questioning how far ethnic minority support staff working in these institutions are treated as professionals in comparison with their mainstream teacher and assistant colleagues.
Mike Wallace, Agnes Mcmahon
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Feeling Deprofessionalised: the social construction of emotions during an OFSTED inspection

Cambridge Journal of Education, 1996
Abstract In a qualitative study of a primary school, it was found that the technicist approach of an OFSTED inspection impacted against the holistic and humanistic values of the teachers, producing a high degree of trauma among them. This trauma was not a simple emotional response of the moment, nor was it a product of school failure or lack of ...
Bob Jeffrey, Peter Woods
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