TY - JOUR
T1 - Promoting early childhood teacher professionalism in the Australian context
T2 - the place of resistance
AU - Fenech, Marianne
AU - Sumsion, Jennifer
AU - Shepherd, Wendy
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The early childhood education (ECE) sector in Australia is marked by a habitus where 'professionalism' is confined to objective, technical practices. The authos suggest that this is a diminished view of professionalism, and one that compromises high-quality ECE. This article is concerned with how teacher professionalism can be re-imagined and practised within an ECE setting in ways that uphold children's rights and interests and emancipate early childhood teachers from technical, deprofessionalising constraints. Through a case study of professionalism in a reputable high-quality long-day-care centre in Sydney, Australia, the article extends thinking about teacher activism and promotes resistance-based professionalism as one way of producing an alternative habitus about quality ECE and the integral role early childhood teachers play in such provision.
AB - The early childhood education (ECE) sector in Australia is marked by a habitus where 'professionalism' is confined to objective, technical practices. The authos suggest that this is a diminished view of professionalism, and one that compromises high-quality ECE. This article is concerned with how teacher professionalism can be re-imagined and practised within an ECE setting in ways that uphold children's rights and interests and emancipate early childhood teachers from technical, deprofessionalising constraints. Through a case study of professionalism in a reputable high-quality long-day-care centre in Sydney, Australia, the article extends thinking about teacher activism and promotes resistance-based professionalism as one way of producing an alternative habitus about quality ECE and the integral role early childhood teachers play in such provision.
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U2 - 10.2304/ciec.2010.11.1.89
DO - 10.2304/ciec.2010.11.1.89
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77953801329
SN - 1463-9491
VL - 11
SP - 89
EP - 105
JO - Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
JF - Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
IS - 1
ER -