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Substitute teachers deserve a special place in any efforts to protect the profession against high rates of attrition and to protect individuals against a demoralising and embittered departure from the profession. This chapter focuses on some of the difficulties peculiar to substitute teachers and also touches on some of the flexibilities and affordances of substitute or supply status. If the transition into teaching can be seen as a migration or a journey, then arguably substitute teachers are given the fewest provisions for undertaking the journey. Power and arbitrarily privileged knowledge are central elements of the cultural capital needed for acceptance and survival in any community, and substitute teachers usually find such power and knowledge harder to acquire than do other beginning teachers. This chapter tracks some communication among a group of recent graduates and discusses some of the implications for all stakeholders, also taking into account the literature on the subject.
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Schuck, S., Aubusson, P., Buchanan, J., Russell, T. (2012). Teaching Here and There: Substitute Teaching. In: Beginning Teaching. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3901-7_8
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