Exploring Relational Professionalism in Schools -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Thinking Relationally Regarding Teacher Professionality -- Focusing on the Relational Dimension of Teaching -- DISPOSITION OF THE BOOK -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 1: TEACHER PROFESSIONALITY: Contextualizing the concept -- INTRODUCTION -- WHY TEACHER PROFESSIONALITY? WHY NOT KNOWLEDGE OR COMPETENCE? -- CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF PROFESSIONALISM AND PROFESSIONALITY -- PROFESSIONALITY: THE INSTANTIATION OF PROFESSIONALISM -- CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES FOR EDUCATION -- Conditions for Teacher Professionality -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 2: A RELATIONAL APPROACH: On the consequences of thinking relationally -- INTRODUCTION -- THE COMPLEX RELATION BETWEEN TEACHING AND LEARNING -- EDUCATION AS COMMUNICATION -- THE RECIPROCITY OF THE TEACHER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIP -- THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT -- Relational Risks in Schools -- THE VULNERABILITY OF TEACHING -- THE MORAL IMPLICATIONS OF TEACHING -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 3: THE EXPLORATION: Inquiring into teacher professionality through teachers' accounts -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EMPIRICAL STUDY -- The Informants -- The First Interviews -- The Contextual Observations -- The Second Interviews -- THE ANALYSIS PROCESS -- First step: Constructing Practical Arguments -- CODING AND CATEGORIES -- Relational Practices -- Negotiation -- Fleshing Out Aspects -- Introduction to the Presentation of Results -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4: TEACHERS' RELATIONAL PRACTICES I: Establishing and maintaining relationships to individual students -- INTRODUCTION -- "IT'S A CAPITAL YOU BUILD, DAY ONE, DAY TWO..." THEME ONE - NEGOTIATIONS INTENDED TO ATTAIN TRUSTING RELATIONSHIPS -- A Sense of Justice -- A Sense of Benevolence -- A Sense of Being Comprehensible -- A Sense of Humor -- A Stock of Trust.

"TEACHERS CAN'T BE MACHINES." THEME TWO - NEGOTIATIONS INTENDED TO ATTAIN HUMANE RELATIONSHIPS -- A Sense of Recognition -- Human Relationships -- Humane (Empathic) Relationships -- Personal and/or Professional? -- Humane and Professional - A Contradiction in Terms? -- "STILL HAVE SOME 'I CAN' LEFT." THEME THREE - NEGOTIATIONS OF THE STUDENT'S SELF-IMAGE -- Reasonable Expectations of Accomplishment -- A Will to Try -- A Stock of Self-Confidence -- Compensation for Negative Aspects of School Practice -- A Sense of Acceptance -- SUMMARY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 5: ADDING ANALYTICAL LAYERS I: NEGOTIATING TEACHER-STUDENT EDUCATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CONCEPTION OF AN EDUCATIONAL RELATIONSHIP -- OPENNESS FOR THE STUDENT'S MEANING-MAKING -- OPENNESS FOR THE STUDENT'S SELF-IMAGE -- RELATIONAL CONDITIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS -- TEACHERS' PERSONAL PROFESSIONALITY -- SUMMARY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6: TEACHERS' RELATIONAL PRACTICES II: Helping to establish and maintain the relationships among students -- INTRODUCTION -- "A FANTASTIC POWER SOURCE." THEME ONE - NEGOTIATIONS INTENDED TO BUILD ON POSITIVE RELATIONAL CONDITIONS -- Positive Common Experience -- Encounters with Others Who are Different -- Facilitation of the Teacher's Work -- "AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE IT IS OKAY TO BE JUST THE WAY YOU ARE." THEME TWO - NEGOTIATING AMBIVALENT RELATIONSHIPS -- A Common Space of Equal Participation -- Independent Thinking -- Conflicting Purposes in Relationships -- Classmates and/or Friend? -- "HEY, DID YOU HEAR HER TALKING TO YOU?" THEME THREE -NEGOTIATIONS INTENDED TO DEAL WITH PROBLEMS BETWEEN STUDENTS -- On the Border of What can be Tolerated -- Offense -- Conflicts -- SUMMARY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 7: ADDING ANALYTICAL LAYERS II: NEGOTIATING EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITIES AMONG STUDENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CONCEPTION OF AN EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY.

EQUAL RELATIONSHIPS -- Relational Complexities -- CLASSMATE RELATIONSHIPS -- ON THE BORDER -- The Interstices of School -- ENCOUNTERS WITH DIFFERENCE -- COUNTERACTING SOCIAL VIOLENCE -- TEACHERS' PROFESSIONAL AWARENESS AND TASK PERCEPTION -- SUMMARY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 8: TEACHERS' PRACTICE AND RELATIONAL COMPLEXITIES: Two case studies -- INTRODUCTION -- MARIA'S STORY: TEACHER NEGOTIATIONS OF PEER POWER RELATIONSHIPS -- Maria and the Students in Her Class -- Reflections on the Example -- Counteracting Oppression in Maria's Practice -- LOTTA'S STORY: TRYING TO TEACH BEYOND THE TEST TO GRADE-FIXATED STUDENTS -- Democratic Aspirations and Practices at Viewmont -- Stress and One-Sided Grade Focus at Viewmont -- Dilemmas of Teaching and Learning Democracy -- Negotiating the Functions of Education -- SUMMARY -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 9: RELATIONAL PROFESSIONALISM IN SCHOOLS -- INTRODUCTION: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RELATIONAL PRACTICES -- CHALLENGES FOR EDUCATORS IN AN AGE OF MEASUREMENT -- INTRODUCING A LANGUAGE OF RELATIONAL PROFESSIONALISM -- From Professional Knowledge to Professional Judgment Based on Task Perception -- From an Economic Relationship to an Educational Relationship -- From Individual Learners to an Educational Community -- From Accountability for Students as Bearers of Results to Responsibility for Students As Persons -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.