R. Unsworth
Reassembling teachers' professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics
Unsworth, R.; Tummons, J.
Abstract
The formation of teachers’ professional practice has been discussed in relation to a wide variety of influences, with government prescription of practice often criticised as oppressing professional agency. Set within an ethnographic study within one English primary school, this paper explores the role of intertextuality in the form of intertextual hierarchies during a policy-led period of change to teachers’ professional practice: the introduction of a new way of teaching mathematics. Drawing on actor-network theory and literacy studies, we trace the stages of the translation of the new method from policy into practice, through the intertextual hierarchies which carry this knowledge across policy/practice boundaries. We highlight the crucial role of texts as actors within a remodelling of professional practice. Describing how the socio-material use and creation of texts leads to localisation of policies, we lend hope to schools in terms of their own agency within government-driven agendas.
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Unsworth, R., & Tummons, J. (2021). Reassembling teachers' professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics. Ethnography and Education, 16(1), 109-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2020.1788405
| Journal Article Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Acceptance Date | Jun 6, 2020 |
| Online Publication Date | Jul 3, 2020 |
| Publication Date | 2021 |
| Deposit Date | Jun 8, 2020 |
| Publicly Available Date | Jan 3, 2022 |
| Journal | Ethnography and Education |
| Print ISSN | 1745-7823 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1745-7831 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
| Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 109-126 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2020.1788405 |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Ethnography and education on 3 July 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17457823.2020.1788405
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