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Enacting policy: the capacity of school leaders to support early career teachers through policy work.
- Source :
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Australian Educational Researcher (Springer Science & Business Media B.V.) . Nov2014, Vol. 41 Issue 5, p603-620. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- Early career teachers often feel overwhelmed by the complex, intense and unpredictable nature of their work. Recently, policy initiatives have been introduced to provide new teachers with extra release-time from face-to-face classroom teaching duties to assist them in their transition to the workforce. This paper reports on a critical policy study that investigated the enactment of this policy initiative. A data set was created from a larger qualitative study which investigated early career teacher resilience. Drawing on a policy enactment theoretical 'toolbox', the findings indicate that school leaders can empower early career teachers to move beyond being 'receivers' of policy to assume a more active policy role. This paper argues that school leaders are very powerful in their capacity to enact policy to ensure strategic access to appropriate on-going learning opportunities to support early career teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03116999
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Australian Educational Researcher (Springer Science & Business Media B.V.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 98836829
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-014-0155-y