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Teachers´ Work and Identities in New Formats of Secondary Schooling in Latin America and the Caribbean
Teachers´ Work and Identities in New Formats of Secondary Schooling in Latin America and the Caribbean
Abstract Submissions Closed
Saturday, 27 February 2021: 14:15-15:45
Location:
RC04 Sociology of Education (host committee)
Language: English and Spanish
Session Type: Oral
From 1990 onwards, in America Latina and the Caribbean, different tides of educational reforms, policy initiatives and programmes have attempted to tackle the persistence of educational inequalities between young people from different social groups. Many of these reforms have tried to reconfigure variety of aspects of teachers´ work. Numerous studies have examined teachers´ working conditions and social, class and work identities, and the ways in which teachers have reacted to these reforms (whether at grass root level or collectively). In this field of knowledge production, disciplines such as history, anthropology and sociology have been particularly fruitful. This session invites papers examining the social construction of teachers´ work and identities at secondary schooling in different countries in this region. We are particularly interested in studies focusing on schools whose curricular, academic, and/or labour organisation has undergone significant changes –changes labelled by some scholars as alterations to the “grammar of modern schooling”. Studies mapping teachers´ working conditions, the contradictory demands that policy make to them, their responses and initiatives (collective, institutional and/or individual, in and out schools) as well as the unstable subject positions or identities they routinely take on would be especially welcomed.
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