Early career primary teachers’ discursive negotiations of academisation

Explaining the Relative Decline in Teacher Salaries

“…W. Han & Borgonovi, 2020;Hanushek, 2010), but not focused on explaining why teachers are lagging behind other comparable professions. Sociologists, on the other hand, while paying attention to a variety of developments in the teaching profession (e.g., Mathou et al, 2023;Page, 2017;Spicksley, 2022), have shown surprisingly little interest in understanding the social cogs and wheels (Elster, 1989) of teacher salaries. We contend that it is, to a large extent, a qualitative task to detect and lay out the forces that underpin these developments.…”