As education’s main workforce, teachers have been the target of policies designed to shape and affirm new versions of professionalism. This paper examines this issue as it is exemplified by the Teachers of Teachers Network (TTN), a program developed by Chile’s Ministry of Education. As a program designed to identify and reward high quality teachers, it draws from New Public Management’s version of professionalism, which promotes managerial cultures based on individual, test-based incentives. TTN members are granted the opportunity to become entrepreneurs, offering professional development (PD) services to other teachers. As a program designed to develop high quality teachers, it draws from a sociocultural version of teacher professionalism based on the development of interpersonal relations that enhance the collective capacity to solve problems. The results of the current study highlight limitations of implementing teacher quality policies that simultaneously draw from contrasting ideas of professionalism. The five TTN teachers participating in the current study resolved these contradictions by concealing their TTN status and (re)presenting themselves as members of the regular teaching force (peers). Through these discursive moves they subverted the possibility of trust, a key nutrient for collegial learning. These findings are interpreted through Hargreaves’ capital theory of school effectiveness and improvement.

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Una de las preocupaciones del gobierno liberal y la Iglesia en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y principios del XX fue la de crear a los nuevos ciudadanos, hombres y mujeres moralmente virtuosos, que México necesitaba para transformarse en una nación moderna y salir del atraso. Para ello, el propósito fue erradicar los vicios tradicionales del mexicano y cambiar conductas de comportamiento. La escuela fue el medio ideal para educar en valores morales y desarrollar patrones de conducta copiados de países extranjeros. En Puebla, fue la enseñanza de la moral cristiana y la urbanidad por medio de libros de texto la forma como se intentó cumplir con este objetivo nacional. Por medio de lecciones se buscó transformar en los niños costumbres tradicionales y rurales por patrones de conducta ajenos a la realidad social del país.