Discourse appropriation and category boundary work: casual teachers in the market

Title
Discourse appropriation and category boundary work: casual teachers in the market
Publication Date
2017
Author(s)
Charteris, Jennifer
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1554-6730
Email: jcharte5@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jcharte5
Jenkins, Kathryn A
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5936-1391
Email: kjenkins@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:kjenkins
Jones, Marguerite A
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9420-2495
Email: mjones46@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:mjones46
Bannister-Tyrrell, Michelle
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6313-5960
Email: mbannist@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:mbannist
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/01596306.2015.1113158
UNE publication id
une:21602
Abstract
With the increasing casualisation of the teacher labour force, there is little written on the experiences of casual teachers and the challenges they face in brokering professional identities within constantly shifting and uncertain work contexts. Being a category bound casual teacher (a product of category boundary work) is a complex subject position. The aim of this article is to advance our understandings of the identity work inherent in casual relief teachers (CRTs) performativity. Anti-essentialist theories support this exploration of CRT subjectivities and processes of discourse appropriation. Using collective biography methodology as restoried memory work, this article speaks back to neoliberal politics of casualisation. The stories draw attention to how both experienced practitioners and newly graduated teachers might 'do' category boundary work within the complexity of school politics as they navigate the uncertainty of gaining and maintaining employment in the Education market.
Link
Citation
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 38(4), p. 511-529
ISSN
1469-3739
0159-6306
Start page
511
End page
529
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

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