English Teaching: Practice and Critique

Teachers' work and professional identity: Living a contradiction on the margin

Volume 3 Number 3 December 2004

Bella Nitza Illesca (Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University)

Currently in Victoria, the Government is spending millions of dollars on the implementation of literacy intervention programs in State Schools. This narrative explores a teacher?s experiences as she implemented a literacy intervention program at her school, when she was confronted by questions about its value, nature and purpose, as well as challenges to her professional identity. 

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