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  • Safety in Numbers? Teacher Collegiality in the Risk-conscious School

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    McWilliam, Erica
    Singh, Parlo
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    Singh, Parlo
    Year published
    2004
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    Teacher collegiality comes with the friendliest of epithets. This is the case despite the widely disseminated concerns of Andy Hargreaves (1994) about the pernicious effects of what he calls 'contrived collegiality', and the warnings of Milbury McLaughlin (1993) that more apparent collegiality does not automatically translate into more effective teaching practice. The driving logic of contemporary discussions of teacher culture, in general, still appears to be that teacher collegiality is an essential ingredient of any school that claims to be an 'emotionally healthy workplace' (Jarzabkowski 2001, p 4). It is, ipso facto, a ...
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    Teacher collegiality comes with the friendliest of epithets. This is the case despite the widely disseminated concerns of Andy Hargreaves (1994) about the pernicious effects of what he calls 'contrived collegiality', and the warnings of Milbury McLaughlin (1993) that more apparent collegiality does not automatically translate into more effective teaching practice. The driving logic of contemporary discussions of teacher culture, in general, still appears to be that teacher collegiality is an essential ingredient of any school that claims to be an 'emotionally healthy workplace' (Jarzabkowski 2001, p 4). It is, ipso facto, a good thing. In this paper, we cautiously attempt to write against the grain of this prevailing moral-ethical tale about teacher collegiality, at the same time working to undo the binary formulation of 'positive' as distinct from 'negative' collegiality that Andy Hargreaves finds useful. Our thesis is that, for better and worse, risk consciousness is an organisational rationality that produces in individual teachers the desire not to be physically isolated from other teachers.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Educational Enquiry
    Volume
    5
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/EDEQ/article/view/515
    Copyright Statement
    © 2004 University of South Australia. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this journal please refer to the journal’s website or contact the authors.
    Subject
    Specialist Studies in Education
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/25342
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