The best and the rest: discourses of teacher selection and the aspirations of would-be teachers

Title: The best and the rest: discourses of teacher selection and the aspirations of would-be teachers
Creator: Gore, Jennifer M.; Barron, Rosie Joy; Holmes, Kathryn; Smith, Max
Relation: 2016 AERA Annual Meeting . Proceedings of the 2016 AERA Annual Meeting (Washington, DC 8-12 April, 2016)
Publisher: American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Resource Type: conference paper
Date: 2016
Description: Arguments about what should be valued in the selection of teacher candidates prioritise everything from access and diversity to high academic achievement. In Australia these debates have reached a climax in media, policy, and academic contexts. Treating ‘selectivity’ as an ‘object of knowledge’ enables us to explore its associated practices and discourses, and the subject positions it produces. In doing so, we draw upon rich empirical data from a mixed methods study to investigate who, by demographic characteristics and academic achievement levels, aspires to teach, and how students talk about their aspirations. We argue that current approaches to raising the status of teachers and teaching through narrower selection processes may be undermining the very goals sought.
Subject: career development; teacher characteristics; teacher selection
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1338087
Identifier: uon:27981
Language: eng
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