Imagining the emancipatory future of the Expert Teacher designation: an international history of a phenomenon?

• In Event: Leadership and Faculty Development in International Education

Abstract

The concept of the ‘expert teacher’ is a remarkable story and international phenomenon with many advanced systems investing in a formal designation, partly explained by education systems profound need to recruit and retain the best teachers, providing a career structure, maintaining their classroom impact and developing other teachers in the system. This research closely examines the purposes and structures of these evolving models and their successes and challenges in each national context, especially the history of their impact on teachers’ professional status and significance for the future, it traces global influences and the challenges of governance and political control of such designations. It provides an innovative, international typology, categorising and analysing the phenomenon of the models, including some emergent versions.

Author

• Andy C. Goodwyn, University of Reading