Teachers as mediators: an exploration of situated English teaching

Peter Kelly*, Ulrike Hohmann, Nick Pratt, Hans Dorf

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    Abstract

    Within the context of lower secondary English teaching in South West England, this study identifies in broad terms the competing goals between which English teachers mediate and the explicit and hidden tensions that result. To understand the interactions of competing goals, teachers’ goal-oriented behaviours are referenced to a set of idealised ‘role types’ based on the dimensions of goals, norms, discourses and practices. It is asserted that competing goals, significant to particular educational circumstances, emanate from various sometimes contradictory local, national and perhaps broader social and cultural influences on practice. Yet the teachers observed moved smoothly between goal-oriented behaviours in a continuous and comfortable style, easily and without reflecting any tensions between them. Thus, this article elaborates an account of situated English teaching.
    Original languageEnglish
    Number of pages0
    JournalBritish Education Research Journal
    Volume39
    Issue number0
    Publication statusPublished - 9 Mar 2012

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