Empowering Teacher Professionalism

Collegiality and Practical Wisdom in Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73582-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 203 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

This book explores the transformative potential of ‘collegial practical wisdom’ (phronesis) as a foundation stone for teacher professionalism. Reconceptualising Aristotle’s practical wisdom as a values-led interweaving of research, professional knowledge and theory, Julia Flutter takes us on a voyage of exploration to map a future course for change.

This study uses an innovative, New Materialist methodology to produce a conceptual mapping of collegial practical wisdom for teacher professionalism and is presented as three ‘charts’. The first is an autoethnographic study of the author’s 30 year research career, working alongside teachers, students and policy makers. The second chart delves into the literature to explore theory, research, policy and practice relating to practical wisdom and teacher professionalism. The third chart looks at published narratives by teachers and researchers working collaboratively in ways that demonstrate collegial practical wisdom in action. These charts are brought together as a cartographic research assemblage to trace the complex, entangled threads identified across the journey. The conclusion proposes recommendations for creating a power-grid of collegial practical wisdom to generate an empowered teaching profession.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flutter, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Embarcation 1 What Is ‘Practical Wisdom’ and Why Is It Important to Have an Empowered Teacher Profession? 2 Images and Metaphors for Understanding and Navigation 3 The Cartographic Research Assemblage: Exploring Unfolding Landscapes 4 Why Mapping? 5 The Book’s Structure 6 How the Study Was Carried Out 7 Aims and Objectives 8 How Can a Collegial form of Practical Wisdom Provide a Philosophical Foundation for Teacher Professionalism? 9 Chart 1 – Mapping Practical Wisdom through Research in Schools and Classrooms 10 Chart 2 – Mapping Practical Wisdom and Teacher Professionalism in the Literature 11 Chart 3 – Mapping Practical Wisdom and Teacher Professionalism in Schools and Classrooms 12 Analysing the Charts

1 Mapping Practical Wisdom through Research in Schools and Classrooms 1 Covid-19 2 Medical Professionalism 3 Towards Collegial Practical Wisdom: A Critical Authoethnographic Journey 4 Waypoint 1 – First Voices: Researching Children’s Perspectives 5 Waypoint 2 – Hearing Students’ Voice 6 Waypoint 3 – Teachers’ Voices: Researching in Partnership 7 Waypoint 4 – Broader Ripples 8 Waypoint 5 – Voices Movement: Striving for Transformative Change 9 Waypoint 6 – Making a Splash: Generating Research Impact 10 Waypoint 7 – Entering the Policy Landscape 11 Waypoint 8 – Practical Wisdom: Bridging Research and Practice?

2 Mapping Practical Wisdom and Teacher Professionalism in the Literature 1 Conceptualising Practical Wisdom 2 Waypoint 9 – Aristotle’s Voice 3 Waypoint 10 – Individual and Collective Reconceptualisations 4 Waypoint 11 – Practical Wisdom in the Professions 5 Conceptualising Teacher Professionalism 6 Waypoint 12 – Praxis: Affordances and Constraints 7 Waypoint 13 – Teachers as Highly Competent Professionals 8 Waypoint 14 – Professionalism and Public Trust 9 Waypoint 15 – Widening the Circles for Professional Learning 10 Waypoint 16 – The Chartered College of Teaching 11 Journeying Together 12 Waypoint 17 – A Meeting of Minds

3 Mapping Collegial Practical Wisdom for Teacher Professionalism: Co-Creating Innovative Praxis 1 Unlocking Research Series 2 The Fellow Travellers’ Tales 3 Waypoint 18 – Phronetic Reasoning in Praxis 4 Waypoint 19 – Releasing the Imagination 5 Waypoint 20 – Twin Threads: Leading Collective Impact 6 Waypoint 21 – Binding Threads Together

4 The Cartographic Research Assemblage 1 Practical Wisdom 2 Teacher Professionalism 3 Implications and Recommendations

5 The Cartographer’s Research Logbook 1 Entry 1: Boarding Parrhesia 2 Entry 2: Into the Unknown 3 Entry 3: Naming Stars 4 Entry 4: Beached 5 Entry 5: Taking the Long View 6 Entry 6: Here Be Dragons … 7 Last Entry: Harbour Lights

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Julia Flutter, EdD (2024), University of Cambridge, UK, has an extensive career in academic research focused on student voice and teacher professionalism. A former Associate Director of the Cambridge Primary Review Trust, her work has been at the intersection of research, practice and policy in education for over three decades.