Critical discourse analysis of university teacher educators’ professionalism in Chilean teacher education policy

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https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.5201

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University teacher educators, professionalism, CDA, teacher education, New Public Management, quality assurance policy

Abstract

This article uses critical discourse analysis (CDA) to interrogate the discursive construction of Chilean university teacher educators’ professionalism in government initial teacher education policy and institutional policy enactment documents. The study examines the network of discourses—new managerialist, quality assurance, performance, functionalist professional development—producing a version of professionalism akin to organizational professionalism. Used as a form of managerial control over teacher educators’ professional practices, such professionalism exacerbates performativity while reducing professional agency opportunities and consistent professional/academic development. Ultimately, this study contributes to the necessary questioning of Chilean ITE policy reform and the need to examine its effects on university TEs’ professional lives and the professional modeling of their student teachers.

 

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Yenny Hinostroza-Paredes, University of Helsinki

Yenny Hinostroza-Paredes is a doctoral candidate at the University of Helsinki, where she researches how the professional agency of university teacher educators is impacted by the wider structural conditions of contemporary higher education and teacher education.

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2020-11-30

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Hinostroza-Paredes, Y. (2020). Critical discourse analysis of university teacher educators’ professionalism in Chilean teacher education policy. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 28, 180. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.5201

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