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1 online resource (207 p.) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Series Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1-Introduction -- What's in a Name? Defining 'Paraprofessional' -- Their Presence and Roles in the Workforce -- Structure of the Book -- Chapter 2-The Wider Policy Context Giving Rise to Learning Mentors -- Area-based Initiatives: Back to the Future? -- New Labour School-specific Policies: 'Benefiting the Many and Not the Few' -- Spotlight on the Teaching Profession in 'Driving Up Standards' |
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New Labour's Social Policy Agenda: The Identification and Elimination of Risk -- 'Every Child Matters' -- The 'Centrality of Work' -- A Closer Examination of the Learning Mentor Role -- And received ... -- News Media and Academic Constructions of Learning Mentors -- Chapter 3-Historical and Comparative Accounts of Paraprofessional Experiences -- 'New Careers for the Poor' -- Applying 'New Careers' to Education and Schooling: '... Nothing About the System Belongs to the Poor' -- Critiquing 'New Careers' -- Professionalising Tasks, Not People -- the 'Pitfalls of Assimilation' |
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In Practice -- What Actually Happened to 'New Careers' Paraprofessionals? -- 'Psychic Stretch' or Emotional Labour? -- Chapter 4-Introducing Institutional Ethnography as a Means to Research Marginalised Work -- Standpoint -- The 'Relations of Ruling' and the Notion of the Problematic -- Texts -- Defining Texts -- Texts in Operation -- Planning an Ethnography and Accessing the Site -- Time to Do Ethnography? -- Accessing the Site -- Considering Ethics, Power Relations and Reflexive Practice -- Employing Ethnographic Tools to Generate Data |
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'Speaking in Social Relations' -- Utilising IE in Planning and Executing the Interview -- Organisational Paid Work: Frontline Workers -- Organisational Paid Work: The 'Ruling' Work of Managers -- 'Everyday Life Work' -- The Experiences of Support Staff -- 'Everyday Life Work' -- The Experiences of Children and Young People as 'Pupils' -- Distinguishing Between Institutional and Experiential Accounts of Work -- Transforming the Data -- Reduction, Display and Organisation of Data -- Writing Strategies |
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Building Composite Accounts. When analysing data in IE, the researcher works towards the goal of keeping the institutional in view. There are a number of ways in which this can be achieved and those outlined here all played a part in the analysis of this -- The Use of Quotes in Analysis. The final two issues under focus are in relation to the use of quotes in the analysis. The first is whether and how biographical details should be included in the analysis. Some IE researchers regard the 'tagging' of quotes, -- Chapter 5-Introducing Priory Park High School |
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Significant Developments and Policy Milestones |
| Summary |
Drawing on an ethnography conducted in a state secondary school, this book provides a critical examination of the role and practice of educational paraprofessionals, focusing on the learning mentor. It explores the lived reality of their work and how these 'new' roles are framed within more established discourses like 'pastoral care'. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Teachers' assistants -- Education (Secondary) -- England -- Evaluation.
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Teaching staff. |
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Education -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- General. |
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England https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpYDdYvBpjXV6WpybK68C |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bishop, Jo Propping up the Performative School Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited,c2022 9781839822438 |
| ISBN |
1839822449 |
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9781839822445 (electronic bk.) |
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9781839822421 electronic book |
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1839822422 electronic book |
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9781839822438 |
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1839822430 |
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