Professional learning and the unfinalizable: English educators writing and telling stories together

Graham Bruce Parr, Scott Anthony Bulfin

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Abstract

Standards-based education reforms and intensified accountability regimes are now a feature of most countries agendas to improve the quality of their teaching workforces. One of the direct consequences of these reforms is a requirement that teachers demonstrate their ongoing participation in forms of professional development or professional learning throughout their careers. Along with this, there has been a narrowing of what is acknowledged by standards-based accountability regimes as discipline-based professional knowledge and `valuable professional development. This essay is a dialogic, reflexive account of a professional learning and writing project for English teachers and teacher educators in Australia, begun in 2013, called the stella2.0 project. The project builds on the groundbreaking work of the STELLA project in Australia from the turn of the century, and some other models of teacher writing projects across the world. Drawing on Cavarero, we critically scrutinize writing and storytelling in the dialogic professional community of the stella2.0 project, and in the process `speak back to standards-based reform policies that undermine English educators agency and professionalism.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)157 - 175
Number of pages19
JournalChanging English
Volume22
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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Parr, Graham Bruce ; Bulfin, Scott Anthony. / Professional learning and the unfinalizable: English educators writing and telling stories together. In: Changing English. 2015 ; Vol. 22, No. 2. pp. 157 - 175.
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Parr, GB & Bulfin, SA 2015, 'Professional learning and the unfinalizable: English educators writing and telling stories together', Changing English, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 157 - 175. https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684X.2015.1026186

Professional learning and the unfinalizable: English educators writing and telling stories together. / Parr, Graham Bruce; Bulfin, Scott Anthony.

In: Changing English, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2015, p. 157 - 175.

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Parr GB, Bulfin SA. Professional learning and the unfinalizable: English educators writing and telling stories together. Changing English. 2015;22(2):157 - 175. https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684X.2015.1026186

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