Transformative Teachers or Teachers to Be Transformed? The Cases of Bolivia and Timor-Leste

Autor/inn/en	Shah, Ritesh; Lopes Cardozo, Mieke T. A.
Titel	Transformative Teachers or Teachers to Be Transformed? The Cases of Bolivia and Timor-Leste
Quelle	In: Research in Comparative and International Education, 11 (2016) 2, S.208-221 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1745-4999
DOI	10.1177/1745499916633314
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Educational Strategies; Social Change; Foreign Policy; Conflict; Teacher Role; History; Strategic Planning; Comparative Education; Surveys; Statistical Analysis; Cross Cultural Studies; Inservice Teacher Education; Teacher Attitudes; Social Action; Political Influences; Bolivia; Timor-Leste + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsreform; Lehrstrategie; Sozialer Wandel; Außenpolitik; Konflikt; Lehrerrolle; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Statistische Analyse; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Lehrerfortbildung; Lehrerverhalten; Soziales Handeln; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Bolivien
Abstract	Applying the Strategic Relational Approach, this paper analyses the circumstances behind and educators' strategies in response to education reforms in two nation-states undergoing socio-political transformation--Bolivia and Timor-Leste. Despite the starkly different histories and contemporary context of each nation, we suggest that transformation in both settings is driven by a desire to unshackle histories of colonisation and social conflict. Education reform, at least discursively, aims to dislocate past practices and replace them with a new material reality. In such spaces, we find that teachers are acting as strategic political actors, but in ways that are historically situated and driven by real and perceived personal and professional constraints. Their actions lead to particular types of "resistance" and strategic action, leading to outcomes that are simultaneously continuous and disconnected from the past. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01