Representing teachers' voices: An ethnodrama of Mauritian teachers under times of curriculum reform

This article emphasises the motivation for a methodological representation choice that captures teachers' voices in a Small Island Developing State context during the introduction of a curriculum reform. The diverse voices of teachers as they inhabit a context that gears towards compliance and...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of education (Durban) 2022-01 (86), p.1-24
Hauptverfasser: Appadoo-Ramsamy, Wedsha, Samuel, Michael Anthony, Ankiah-Gangadeen, Aruna
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This article emphasises the motivation for a methodological representation choice that captures teachers' voices in a Small Island Developing State context during the introduction of a curriculum reform. The diverse voices of teachers as they inhabit a context that gears towards compliance and managed intimacy demands are explored through the representational choice of an ethnodrama. Narrative inquiry led to an ethnodrama representation that protected the anonymity and confidentiality of participants and simultaneously revealed multiple forms of agencies in entangled spatial and temporal dimensions. The findings foreground teachers' choice of agencies and representations that serve different interests influenced by whom they dialogue with in specific spaces. With a fictionalised future enactment of the ethnodrama at the end, this article closes with teachers negotiating their agency and opening reflections for future research in new normal Covid-19 spaces.
ISSN:0259-479X
2520-9868
2520-9868
DOI:10.17159/2520-9868/i86a03