Extreme teaching and the politics of teachers working conditions at the peripheries of the Mexican education system

Charles Stephen Keck

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dc.creator	Charles Stephen Keck
dc.date	2016
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-23T19:51:22Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-23T19:51:22Z
dc.identifier	http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=99843455015
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/116568
dc.description	The term extreme teaching refers to a combination of working conditions that appear to make teaching impossibly difficult for indigenous teachers at the periphery of the Mexican education system. An attention to the reality of teaching conditions on the ground creates a counterweight to the theoretical universalisms of education policy, and more specifically to the discourse of teacher quality that position teachers as autonomous professionals, free to become fully competent if motivated and incentivized. A broad overview of the characteristics of indigenous teachers experience and working conditions is followed by a discussion of factors inhibiting all-important communication and critical dialogue between teachers. I argue that in the diminished professional environment of extreme teaching the teacher quality discourse and its contemporary policy technologies become particularly dissonant, if not surreal. By way of conclusion I argue that the neo-liberal agenda can be better contextualized and understood by paying greater attention to teachers working conditions, especially at the margins of education as they become increasingly permeated by its discourses. Such an attention would help avoid a bad fit between policy and reality and help create a more teacher centred agenda for educational change.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=998
dc.rights	Sinéctica, Revista Electrónica de Educación
dc.source	Sinéctica, Revista Electrónica de Educación (México) Num.46
dc.subject	Educación
dc.subject	Teacher quality discourse
dc.subject	neo-liberalism
dc.subject	education policy
dc.subject	working conditions
dc.subject	extreme teaching
dc.subject	educational change
dc.title	Extreme teaching and the politics of teachers working conditions at the peripheries of the Mexican education system
dc.type	artículo científico