TY - JOUR
T1 - Academic work and proletarianisation
T2 - a study of higher education-based teacher educators
AU - Ellis, Viv
AU - McNicholl, Jane
AU - Blake, Allan
AU - McNally, Jim
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - This article reports on a one year, mixed methods study of 13 teacher educators at work in English and Scottish higher education institutions. Framed by cultural-historical activity theory, itself a development of a Marxian analysis of political economy, the research shows how, under conditions of academic capitalism, these teacher educators were denied opportunities to accumulate capital (e.g. research publications, grants) and were proletarianised. The reasons for this stratification were complex but two factors were significant: first, the importance of maintaining relationships with schools in the name of 'partnership' teacher education; and, second, the historical cultures of teacher education in HE.
AB - This article reports on a one year, mixed methods study of 13 teacher educators at work in English and Scottish higher education institutions. Framed by cultural-historical activity theory, itself a development of a Marxian analysis of political economy, the research shows how, under conditions of academic capitalism, these teacher educators were denied opportunities to accumulate capital (e.g. research publications, grants) and were proletarianised. The reasons for this stratification were complex but two factors were significant: first, the importance of maintaining relationships with schools in the name of 'partnership' teacher education; and, second, the historical cultures of teacher education in HE.
KW - Academic capitalism
KW - Academic work
KW - Proletarianisation
KW - Teacher educators
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84894089512&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.tate.2014.01.008
DO - 10.1016/j.tate.2014.01.008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84894089512
SN - 0742-051X
VL - 40
SP - 33
EP - 43
JO - Teaching and Teacher Education
JF - Teaching and Teacher Education
ER -