Discursive constructions of teachers

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The aim of the Playing Teacher project is to give people supporting new teachers a flexible, engaging resource which can be used … to open up important conversations about becoming a teacher.’



The first part of the Playing Teacher project involves exploring the myriad ways in which teachers are discursively constructed through a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of a selection of textual documents focused on teachers and teaching. The way teachers are spoken about in the public space has an impact on ‘the material-economic realities of teaching’ (Mockler, 2022, p. 169). Teachers have also been invited to contribute their views and perspectives through an online qualitative survey.

Developing a card deck to support new teachers

Findings from the first stage of the research will inform the development of the cards. I imagine bosnia and herzegovina email list these to be a bit like tarot cards or top trumps cards – with each card showing a different archetype of the teacher which has emerged from the previous textual analysis. A pilot card, derived from Mass Observation data included in the corpus, can be seen in figure 1.

Figure 1: Front and reverse of pilot teacher card – ‘The Storyteller’ (illustration by Simon Reid)