TY - JOUR
T1 - Configuring governmentalized teachers through introspective panopticism inscribed within their subjectivities in the regime of performativity from the Foucauldian perspective
AU - Chiang, Tien-Hui
AU - MacKenzie, Alison
AU - Zeng, Wenjing
AU - Thurston, Allen
AU - Fu, Shuqiong
AU - Yao, Yiling
PY - 2023/3/7
Y1 - 2023/3/7
N2 - This paper analyses how teachers contribute to a successful society through a lens of Foucauldian perspective. It uses this lens to analyse how teachers’ self-improvement through professional development in the regime of neoliberal governmentality is influenced by society, performativity and professional ‘norms’. Data is presented from 3,131 teachers, based in 55 high schools in Zhejiang province China and analysed using Structural Equational Modelling to explore the relationships between these variables. Findings indicated parental attitudes, concept of responsible subjects, and teaching quality rewards significantly influenced the subjectivity-performativity association. The subjectivity-performativity association significantly influenced teacher self-improvement, both directly, and in a relationship that was mediated by teaching efficiency. These correlations intimate that introspective panopticism enshrined within teachers’ subjectivities carries performativity.
AB - This paper analyses how teachers contribute to a successful society through a lens of Foucauldian perspective. It uses this lens to analyse how teachers’ self-improvement through professional development in the regime of neoliberal governmentality is influenced by society, performativity and professional ‘norms’. Data is presented from 3,131 teachers, based in 55 high schools in Zhejiang province China and analysed using Structural Equational Modelling to explore the relationships between these variables. Findings indicated parental attitudes, concept of responsible subjects, and teaching quality rewards significantly influenced the subjectivity-performativity association. The subjectivity-performativity association significantly influenced teacher self-improvement, both directly, and in a relationship that was mediated by teaching efficiency. These correlations intimate that introspective panopticism enshrined within teachers’ subjectivities carries performativity.
KW - neoliberal governmentality
KW - introspective panopticism
KW - subjectivity
KW - performativity
KW - governmentalized teachder
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijer.2023.102158
DO - 10.1016/j.ijer.2023.102158
M3 - Article
SN - 0883-0355
VL - 118
JO - International Journal of Educational Research
JF - International Journal of Educational Research
M1 - 102158
ER -