Missionaries or Mercenaries? How Teachers in Elite Private Schools Embrace Privilege

Autor/in	Variyan, George
Titel	Missionaries or Mercenaries? How Teachers in Elite Private Schools Embrace Privilege
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40 (2019) 8, S.1204-1218 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Variyan, George)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2019.1659753
Schlagwörter	Private Schools; Single Sex Colleges; Advantaged; Teacher Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Equal Education; Males; Adolescents; Middle School Teachers; High School Teachers; Gender Differences; Social Status; Moral Issues; Professional Autonomy; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Private school; Privatschule; Lehrerverhalten; Ausland; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Middle school; Middle schools; Teacher; Teachers; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Geschlechterkonflikt; Sozialer Status; Moraltheorie; Berufsfreiheit; Australien
Abstract	This article is based on a multi-site study of teachers in elite private schools in Australia. Teachers' accounts from this study bring nuance to the reasons one might short-handedly expect they have in working for these exclusive institutions. It is not that everyday motivations don't matter, for example, the financial compensations, the beautiful grounds and the status payoffs, but that teachers bring their own discourses, histories and intentions to bear on the contradictions of their work-lives. This is crucial evidence for understanding how privilege functions, how teachers are not simply co-opted or constrained. Instead, this article brings into view the agency of teachers who embrace privilege in spite of thorny questions around educational inequality that elite private schools cannot avoid. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01