Diversifying the Teaching Profession Dimensions, Dilemmas and Directions for the Future

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis 2023
• Series: Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity
• Subjects: Moral & social purpose of education; Secondary schools; Teacher training; Teaching of specific groups & persons with special educational needs; Deaf; Diversity; Higher Education; Inclusion; Inclusive Teaching; Initial Teacher Education; ITE Programme; ITE Provider; Large Mixed Methods Project; LGB; LGB Teacher; LGB. Minority Ethnic; LGBTQI; Migrant Teacher; Minority Ethnic; Minority Ethnic Teachers; Post-primary Teacher Education; Primary ITE; Primary ITE Programme; Professional Development; Race and Ethnicity; Representative Bureaucracy Theory; Social Class; Teacher Diversity; Trusting Student Teacher Relationships; Underrepresentation; Widening Participation
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication

 This edited volume is about diversifying the teaching profession. It is unique in its inclusion of multiple dimensions of diversity; its chapters focus on a wide range of under-represented groups, including those from lower socio-economic groups, Black and minority ethnic groups, migrants, the Travelling community, the Deaf community, the LGBTQI+ community and those of mature age. The book includes contributions from Australia, England, Iceland, Portugal and Scotland, as well as a number of chapters from the Irish context, mostly emanating from projects funded under Ireland's Higher Education Authority's Programme for Access to Higher Education (PATH): Strand 1-Equity of Access to Initial Teacher Education. The book also critically engages the rationale for diversifying the profession, arguing not only that representation still matters, but also that ultimately teacher diversity work needs to encompass system transformation to achieve a diverse, equitable and inclusive teaching profession.