Record Number |
21516 |
ISBN |
9781350129252 (hardcover) |
Location |
371.1 MOC |
Author |
Mockler, Nicole, (author). |
Title |
Constructing teacher identities : how the print media define and represent teachers and their work / Nicole Mockler. |
Published |
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. |
Collation |
198 pages ; 25 cm. |
Content types |
text |
Carrier type |
volume |
Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents Note |
Words matter -- The Australian Teacher Corpus -- Change over time -- The 'newspaper efect' in the ATC -- The significance and evolution of 'quality' in the ATC -- A comparative view of teachers in the print media -- Teachers in the print media : conclusions, limitations, prospects. |
Summary Note |
"This book is grounded in the idea that words matter. It holds that how we discuss teachers and teaching in the public space shapes the way we come to regard teachers as a society; the beliefs we hold about who they are, what they do, and why they do it. Over time it also comes to shape the conditions and contexts in which teachers do their work ... This book provides a comprehensive and systematic exploration of print media discourses around teachers and their work, using over 65,000 articles published in Australian print media from 1996 to 2020 as a case study. It also takes a comparative look, drawing on print media texts from other countries, namely Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. It employs an innovative combination of large-scale corpus-assisted analysis and close qualitative analysis to identify and explore representations of teachers in the print media, how they are constructed and how these constructions have changed and shifted." - Back cover. |
Subject |
Teachers -- Press coverage -- Australia |
Education in mass media -- Australia |
Teachers -- Australia -- Public opinion |
Public opinion -- Australia |