Session Information
19 SES 13, The Development of the Postmodern Professional (Part 2)
Symposium
Contribution
In the political discourse reforms demonstrate demands of professionalization, creativity and performativity. In the light of these demands the paper identifies the political double agenda, where reforms and programmes focus on creative organisational development and include strategies for teacher professionalization. The political discourse mirrors issues in the post modern welfare state modernizing and professionalising the key tasks related to education and learning. The ethnographic studies and the school cases involved exemplify the breakaway from the classic basis. The post modern professional team is recognized as a team building up new routines for i) organisational development, ii) creative learning, iii) combined with strategies for performativity, assessments and evaluation. In the practical context, schools and teachers are facing the challenge of how to implement reforms and strengthen the professional strategies. Through the case schools’ IT-based strategies for professionalization the paper identifies the changing school culture. Further the paper exemplifies the changing conditions for teacher-students interaction and communication related to the use of the new range of IT-tools like Learning Management Systems, Labtops, internet and social media. In this light the paper shows the professional dilemma between creativity and performativity but also how teachers create their own strategies related to the teaching practice.
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