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| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Towards an uncertain politics of professionalism: teacher and nurse identities in flux |
| Author: | Stronach, Ian |
| Author: | Corbin, Brian |
| Author: | McNamara, Olwen |
| Author: | Stark, Sheila |
| Author: | Warne, Tony |
| Abstract: | This paper is about the nature of contemporary professional identity. It looks at the ways in which ‘discursive dynamics’ come to re-write the professional teacher and nurse as split, plural and conflictual selves, as they seek to come to terms with a political impetus written through what the authors term an ‘economy of performance’ in uncertain conflict with various ‘ecologies of practice’. The teacher and nurse are thus located in a complicated nexus between policy, ideology and practice. Epistemologically, the paper offers a deconstruction of professional identities, and criticizes the reductive typologies and characterizations of current professionalism. Politically, it reaches towards a more nuanced account of professional identities, stressing the local, situated and indeterminable nature of professional practice, and the inescapable dimensions of trust, diversity and creativity. |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 109-38 |
| Publication | Journal of Education Policy |
| Date | 2002-00-00 2002 |