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Enacting policy: the capacity of school leaders to support early career teachers through policy work
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Sullivan, AM and Morrison, CM, Enacting policy: the capacity of school leaders to support early career teachers through policy work, Australian Educational Researcher, 41, (5) pp. 603-620. ISSN 0311-6999 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2014 The Australian Association for Research in Education, Inc.
DOI: doi:10.1007/s13384-014-0155-y
Abstract
Early career teachers often feel overwhelmed by the complex, intense and unpredictable nature of their work. Recently, policy initiatives have been introduced to provide new teachers with extra release-time from face-to-face classroom teaching duties to assist them in their transition to the workforce. This paper reports on a critical policy study that investigated the enactment of this policy initiative. A data set was created from a larger qualitative study which investigated early career teacher resilience. Drawing on a policy enactment theoretical ‘toolbox’, the findings indicate that school leaders can empower early career teachers to move beyond being ‘receivers’ of policy to assume a more active policy role. This paper argues that school leaders are very powerful in their capacity to enact policy to ensure strategic access to appropriate on-going learning opportunities to support early career teachers.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Policy enactment; Early career teachers; Teacher induction; School leadership |
Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Specialist studies in education |
Research Field: | Educational administration, management and leadership |
Objective Division: | Education and Training |
Objective Group: | Schools and learning environments |
Objective Field: | Policies and development |
UTAS Author: | Morrison, CM (Dr Chad Morrison) |
ID Code: | 111377 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 7 |
Deposited By: | Education |
Deposited On: | 2016-09-09 |
Last Modified: | 2018-07-04 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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