Teachers’ Professional Identities in an Era of Testing Accountability in Japan : The Case of Teachers in Low-Performing Schools
Author
Source
Education Research International
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-09-06
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This paper presents tentative findings and discussions arising from an ongoing study on whether and how Japanese teachers’ professional identities have shifted in the context of heightened testing accountability.
After a brief description of policy development that led to the introduction of national testing in 2007, previous studies of teacher identity are reviewed.
Having explored some ambiguity in the existent theories regarding the trajectories and consequences of identity work, the paper goes on to report and to analyse the cases of six teachers from three low-performing elementary schools in a northern Japanese administrative region.
With the limited size and scope of the sample, the present research cannot claim generalisability, but it can still raise a number of theoretical issues for further investigation, such as the precariousness of teachers’ strategies for sustaining their professional identities and the need for locating teachers’ identity work in the micropolitics of schools.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Katsuno, Masaaki. 2012. Teachers’ Professional Identities in an Era of Testing Accountability in Japan : The Case of Teachers in Low-Performing Schools. Education Research International،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-509044
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Katsuno, Masaaki. Teachers’ Professional Identities in an Era of Testing Accountability in Japan : The Case of Teachers in Low-Performing Schools. Education Research International No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-509044
American Medical Association (AMA)
Katsuno, Masaaki. Teachers’ Professional Identities in an Era of Testing Accountability in Japan : The Case of Teachers in Low-Performing Schools. Education Research International. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-509044
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-509044