Contrived collegiality?
Using activity theory to investigate
the efficacy of Co-operative teacher
development.
Sarah Jones
The Sigmoid Curve
Handy, 1984
Holistic
meaning
Transforming
dialogue
Power
sharing
Well
being
Woods, 2011
Collegiality
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Spontaneous
Voluntary
Development oriented
Pervasive across time and space
Unpredictable
(Hargreaves, 2008)
Contrived collegiality
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Administratively regulated.
Compulsory
Implementation-oriented
Fixed in time and space.
Predictable
(Hargreaves, 2008)
Engeström (1999)
Engeström (1999)
Conclusion
• Conflict can now be viewed either as an
opportunity to explore issues of divergence or
sources of subversion.
• Collegiality is difficult to implement and may only
be seen sporadically.
• Organisational-induced collegiality exists in the
SIG. This makes its an object-orientated, collective
and culturally mediated human activity.
• Wider political context is outside the activity but
is still controlling it.
Some questions….
• How do we overtly share power?
• How do we ‘loosen’ experimentation/ risk-taking
but keep ‘strength’ over norms to allow teachers
to tolerate losses in self-esteem or damage to
new identities born out of new learning?
• How do we continue a process of self-monitoring
in a socially constructed platform to enable
developments to continue, but avoid surveillance
and damaging power dynamics?