Empowering Teacher Professionalism
Collegiality and Practical Wisdom in Education
Published on 10. July 2025
Book
Hardback
204 pages
978-90-04-73582-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the transformative potential of 'collegial practical wisdom' (phronesis) as a foundation stone for teacher professionalism. Reconceptualising Aristotle's practical wisdom as a values-led interweaving of research, professional knowledge and theory, Julia Flutter takes us on a voyage of exploration to map a future course for change.
This study uses an innovative, New Materialist methodology to produce a conceptual mapping of collegial practical wisdom for teacher professionalism and is presented as three 'charts'. The first is an autoethnographic study of the author's 30 year research career, working alongside teachers, students and policy makers. The second chart delves into the literature to explore theory, research, policy and practice relating to practical wisdom and teacher professionalism. The third chart looks at published narratives by teachers and researchers working collaboratively in ways that demonstrate collegial practical wisdom in action. These charts are brought together as a cartographic research assemblage to trace the complex, entangled threads identified across the journey. The conclusion proposes recommendations for creating a power-grid of collegial practical wisdom to generate an empowered teaching profession.
This study uses an innovative, New Materialist methodology to produce a conceptual mapping of collegial practical wisdom for teacher professionalism and is presented as three 'charts'. The first is an autoethnographic study of the author's 30 year research career, working alongside teachers, students and policy makers. The second chart delves into the literature to explore theory, research, policy and practice relating to practical wisdom and teacher professionalism. The third chart looks at published narratives by teachers and researchers working collaboratively in ways that demonstrate collegial practical wisdom in action. These charts are brought together as a cartographic research assemblage to trace the complex, entangled threads identified across the journey. The conclusion proposes recommendations for creating a power-grid of collegial practical wisdom to generate an empowered teaching profession.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-73582-8 (9789004735828)
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Person
Julia Flutter, EdD (2024), University of Cambridge, UK, has an extensive career in academic research focused on student voice and teacher professionalism. She is a former Associate Director of the Cambridge Primary Review Trust and her work has been at the intersection of research, practice and policy in education for over three decades.
Content
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Embarcation
?1 What Is 'Practical Wisdom' and Why Is It Important to Have an Empowered Teacher Profession?
?2 Images and Metaphors for Understanding and Navigation
?3 The Cartographic Research Assemblage: Exploring Unfolding Landscapes
?4 Why Mapping?
?5 The Book's Structure
?6 How the Study Was Carried Out
?7 Aims and Objectives
?8 Mapping as Methodology
?9 Chart 1 - Mapping Practical Wisdom through Research in Schools and Classrooms
?10 Chart 2 - Mapping Practical Wisdom and Teacher Professionalism in the Literature
?11 Chart 3 - Mapping Practical Wisdom and Teacher Professionalism in Schools and Classrooms
?12 Analysing the Charts
1 Mapping Practical Wisdom through Research in Schools and Classrooms
?1 Covid-19
?2 Medical Professionalism
?3 Towards Collegial Practical Wisdom: A Critical Authoethnographic Journey
?4 Waypoint 1 - First Voices: Researching Children's Perspectives
?5 Waypoint 2 - Hearing Students' Voice
?6 Waypoint 3 - Teachers' Voices: Researching in Partnership
?7 Waypoint 4 - Broader Ripples
?8 Waypoint 5 - Voices Movement: Striving for Transformative Change
?9 Waypoint 6 - Making a Splash: Generating Research Impact
?10 Waypoint 7 - Entering the Policy Landscape
?11 Waypoint 8 - Practical Wisdom: Bridging Research and Practice?
2 Mapping Practical Wisdom and Teacher Professionalism in the Literature
?1 Conceptualising Practical Wisdom
?2 Waypoint 9 - Aristotle's Voice
?3 Waypoint 10 - Individual and Collective Reconceptualisations
?4 Waypoint 11 - Practical Wisdom in the Professions
?5 Conceptualising Teacher Professionalism
?6 Waypoint 12 - Praxis: Affordances and Constraints
?7 Waypoint 13 - Teachers as Highly Competent Professionals
?8 Waypoint 14 - Professionalism and Public Trust
?9 Waypoint 15 - Widening the Circles for Professional Learning
?10 Waypoint 16 - The Chartered College of Teaching
?11 Journeying Together
?12 Waypoint 17 - A Meeting of Minds
3 Mapping Collegial Practical Wisdom for Teacher Professionalism: Co-Creating Innovative Praxis
?1 Unlocking Research Series
?2 The Fellow Travellers' Tales
?3 Waypoint 18 - Phronetic Reasoning in Praxis
?4 Waypoint 19 - Releasing the Imagination
?5 Waypoint 20 - Twin Threads: Leading Collective Impact
?6 Waypoint 21 - Binding Threads Together
4 The Cartographic Research Assemblage
?1 Practical Wisdom
?2 Teacher Professionalism
?3 Implications and Recommendations
5 The Cartographer's Research Logbook
?1 Entry 1: Boarding Parrhesia
?2 Entry 2: Into the Unknown
?3 Entry 3: Naming Stars
?4 Entry 4: Beached
?5 Entry 5: Taking the Long View
?6 Entry 6: Here Be Dragons ...
?7 Last Entry: Harbour Lights
References
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Embarcation
?1 What Is 'Practical Wisdom' and Why Is It Important to Have an Empowered Teacher Profession?
?2 Images and Metaphors for Understanding and Navigation
?3 The Cartographic Research Assemblage: Exploring Unfolding Landscapes
?4 Why Mapping?
?5 The Book's Structure
?6 How the Study Was Carried Out
?7 Aims and Objectives
?8 Mapping as Methodology
?9 Chart 1 - Mapping Practical Wisdom through Research in Schools and Classrooms
?10 Chart 2 - Mapping Practical Wisdom and Teacher Professionalism in the Literature
?11 Chart 3 - Mapping Practical Wisdom and Teacher Professionalism in Schools and Classrooms
?12 Analysing the Charts
1 Mapping Practical Wisdom through Research in Schools and Classrooms
?1 Covid-19
?2 Medical Professionalism
?3 Towards Collegial Practical Wisdom: A Critical Authoethnographic Journey
?4 Waypoint 1 - First Voices: Researching Children's Perspectives
?5 Waypoint 2 - Hearing Students' Voice
?6 Waypoint 3 - Teachers' Voices: Researching in Partnership
?7 Waypoint 4 - Broader Ripples
?8 Waypoint 5 - Voices Movement: Striving for Transformative Change
?9 Waypoint 6 - Making a Splash: Generating Research Impact
?10 Waypoint 7 - Entering the Policy Landscape
?11 Waypoint 8 - Practical Wisdom: Bridging Research and Practice?
2 Mapping Practical Wisdom and Teacher Professionalism in the Literature
?1 Conceptualising Practical Wisdom
?2 Waypoint 9 - Aristotle's Voice
?3 Waypoint 10 - Individual and Collective Reconceptualisations
?4 Waypoint 11 - Practical Wisdom in the Professions
?5 Conceptualising Teacher Professionalism
?6 Waypoint 12 - Praxis: Affordances and Constraints
?7 Waypoint 13 - Teachers as Highly Competent Professionals
?8 Waypoint 14 - Professionalism and Public Trust
?9 Waypoint 15 - Widening the Circles for Professional Learning
?10 Waypoint 16 - The Chartered College of Teaching
?11 Journeying Together
?12 Waypoint 17 - A Meeting of Minds
3 Mapping Collegial Practical Wisdom for Teacher Professionalism: Co-Creating Innovative Praxis
?1 Unlocking Research Series
?2 The Fellow Travellers' Tales
?3 Waypoint 18 - Phronetic Reasoning in Praxis
?4 Waypoint 19 - Releasing the Imagination
?5 Waypoint 20 - Twin Threads: Leading Collective Impact
?6 Waypoint 21 - Binding Threads Together
4 The Cartographic Research Assemblage
?1 Practical Wisdom
?2 Teacher Professionalism
?3 Implications and Recommendations
5 The Cartographer's Research Logbook
?1 Entry 1: Boarding Parrhesia
?2 Entry 2: Into the Unknown
?3 Entry 3: Naming Stars
?4 Entry 4: Beached
?5 Entry 5: Taking the Long View
?6 Entry 6: Here Be Dragons ...
?7 Last Entry: Harbour Lights
References
Index