The production of Australian professional development policy texts as a site of contest: The case of the federal quality teacher programme |
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| Authors: | Ian Hardy |
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| Institution: | 1. Charles Sturt University, Australia
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| Abstract: | This paper reveals how the provision of teacher professional development is conceptualised within the Australian Government
Quality Teacher Programme (AGQTP) policy text and its predecessors, and uses these texts to infer the nature of the production
practices associated with the development of these policies. The paper argues that multiple tensions within these texts gesture
towards support for complex and contested approaches to professional development during the policy production process. To
make sense of this contestation, the paper draws suggestively upon Bourdieu’s field theory, which conceptualises the social
world as consisting of social spaces or “fields”, and extensions of his theory, which reveal fields as exerting considerable
influence upon one another. The paper argues that “Quality Teacher Programme” texts infer support for more progressive, social
democratic approaches to the provision of teacher professional development within the educational policy field, as well as
more economistic and neoliberal approaches. |
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