Chilean Early Childhood Teachers' Discourses on Professional Associations Building Professionalism: Cohesions and Tensions of an Ecosystem

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dc.contributor.authorAdlerstein, Cynthia
dc.contributor.authorPardo, Marcela
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T20:15:27Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T20:15:27Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThis article aims to explain how ECE teachers' discourses of participation in Chilean professional associations (ECEPAs) are a core trait and builds professionalism in the field. Following the Constructivist-Grounded Theory approach, it adopted a holistic abductive case study method, with a sample of 18 national ECEPA cases and 78 ECE teachers. Data collection drew on 18 individual in-depth interviews and nine discussion groups analyzed in a four-stage Constant Comparison coding process. Findings show ECE teachers relate participation in diverse ECEPAs with building professionalism around four intertwined discourses: transformational politics; pedagogical empowerment; decent working conditions, and historical and renewed struggles. We discuss how these discourses ensemble an emergent ECEPA ecosystem. The significance of this theorization is in making visible how ECE teachers' multifaceted participation reorganizes in the fragmented neoliberal context, making possible dialog, debate, and partnerships. This participation in ECEPAs blurs the traditional understandings of professionalism, opening to new notions based on more democratic, ground-up, and postmodern professionalism.
dc.description.funderNational Agency of Research and Development (ANID) through the FONDECYT Regular Program
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/21582440231164283
dc.identifier.issn2158-2440
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/21582440231164283
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/92262
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000968042400001
dc.issue.numero2
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaSage open
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectearly childhood teachers
dc.subjectdiscourses
dc.subjectprofessional associations
dc.subjectprofessionalism
dc.subjectChile
dc.subject.ods04 Quality Education
dc.subject.odspa04 Educación de calidad
dc.titleChilean Early Childhood Teachers' Discourses on Professional Associations Building Professionalism: Cohesions and Tensions of an Ecosystem
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen13
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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