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Citation
González Á, Fernández MB, Pino-Yancovic M & Madrid R (2020) Teaching in the pandemic: reconceptualizing Chilean educators' professionalism now and for the future. Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 5 (3/4), pp. 265-272. https://doi.org/10.1108/jpcc-06-2020-0043
Abstract
Purpose
This essay explores the effects of school buildings closure during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on Chilean teachers' and principals' professional role and values, highlighting implications for reconceptualising educators' professionalism for the post-pandemic era.
Design/methodology/approach
Competing versions of Chilean educators' professionalism during the pandemic were analysed based on government guidelines, national teachers' association statements, news reports and testimonies from teachers and principals collected from webinars.
Findings
The guidelines that the ministry issued after school building were required to close motivated educators to challenge a version of professionalism founded on new public management (NPM) policies, which mandated external control and emphasized students' academic outcomes. By challenging the dominant NPM perspective of professionalism, educators advocated for professional autonomy as well as students' and communities' well-being.
Originality/value
This essay offers insights into how the Chilean school system's response to the crisis evidenced competing notions of educators' professionalism. As the pandemic continues to be an ongoing phenomenon, four implications for reconceptualising educators' professionalism are drawn, which could inform and offer guidance to practitioners and policymakers in the post-pandemic era.
Keywords
Professionalism; Teachers; Principals; New Public management; Autonomy; Well-being
Journal
Journal of Professional Capital and Community: Volume 5, Issue 3/4
Status | Published |
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Publication date | 30/11/2020 |
Publication date online | 31/10/2020 |
Date accepted by journal | 27/10/2020 |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/36234 |
Publisher | Emerald |
ISSN | 2056-9548 |
eISSN | 2056-9548 |
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Snr Lecturer in Educational Leadership, Education