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Title: 'Teaching for the Time Being': Teaching and Teacher Identity in Low-Fee Private Schools in Semi-Urban Delhi
Language: English
Authors: Sharma, Poonam (ORCID 0000-0003-1081-6516)
Source: Contemporary Education Dialogue. Jul 2023 20(2):283-304.
Availability: SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 22
Publication Date: 2023
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Professional Identity, Private Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Quality, National Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Coping, Work Environment, Educational Change, Teacher Qualifications, Ethnography, Teaching Methods, Administrative Organization, School Administration, Teaching Conditions, Job Security, Fees
Geographic Terms: India
DOI: 10.1177/09731849231172416
ISSN: 0973-1849
2249-5320
Abstract: It is well known that teachers are central to education reforms and to providing high-quality instruction. The National Curriculum Framework 2005 identifies the need for professionally qualified teachers and the need to enhance the professional identity of schoolteachers. Low-fee private schools are often presented as a solution to the supposedly poor quality of education provided by government schools. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines the micro-managed context of teachers' work in low-fee private schools in semi-urban Delhi. It illustrates ways in which curriculum and pedagogy were used to control teachers' work and analyses these observations in the light of New Public Management discourses. This article argues that teachers strongly constructed their work as provisional and used silence and exit as a way to cope within the highly regulated work environments of the school.
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