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Professional Standardization and Teacher Agency? What Space for Leadership Development?

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Chapter 8 Professional Standardization and Teacher Agency? What Space for Leadership Development? examines how The Professional Standards for Provisional Registration as set out by the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) are translated, and eventually enacted at practitioner level within a neoliberal context of professionalism and standardization both globally and more specifically within the Scottish context. Mifsud initially presents the introduction of professional standards in ITE as a policy priority. A literature review focuses on two main areas, namely professionalism and professional standards in teaching and ITE, in addition to the notion of teacher agency. This is followed by an overview of professionalism and standardization within the Scottish context, in addition to a policy analysis of the Scottish standards and the students’ data interpreted through Foucauldian theory.

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    Various terms are used to refer to this Foucauldian notion: subjectification, subjectivation, subjectivity. I utilize the term ‘subjectification’ as utilized by Foucault in 2002b.

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Mifsud, D. (2018). Professional Standardization and Teacher Agency? What Space for Leadership Development?. In: Professional Identities in Initial Teacher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76174-9_8

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