Activating self-monitoring through the discourse of fear and hope: The subjectivation of enterprising teachers

Drawing upon Foucault's governmentality, this study sets out to explore how enterprising subjects constituted through self-monitoring are fashioned in the epoch of performance management drawing on a survey of junior-high-school teachers’ (n = 2,275) attitudes toward its core elements of perfor...

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Published inInternational journal of educational research Vol. 125; p. 102324
Main Authors Chiang, Tien-Hui, Achaa, Lydia Osarfo, Ball, Stephen J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 2024
Subjects
Enterprising subject
Neoliberal governmentality
Performativity
Self-knowledge
Self-monitoring
The discourse of fear and hope
Enterprising subject
Self-knowledge
Self-monitoring
Neoliberal governmentality
The discourse of fear and hope
Performativity
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Summary:Drawing upon Foucault's governmentality, this study sets out to explore how enterprising subjects constituted through self-monitoring are fashioned in the epoch of performance management drawing on a survey of junior-high-school teachers’ (n = 2,275) attitudes toward its core elements of performativity, data governance, self-knowledge, and teaching commitment. The best model of SEM analysis indicates that while such enterprising subjects cannot be manufactured through the coercive force of performance management, this outcome can be effectively achieved by introducing intermediates, such as self-knowledge, performativity, data-comparative governance, and commitment to high standards. This finding indicates that the mission of neoliberal governmentality is mainly completed through subjectivation, in which discourses of fear and hope install care of self into teachers’ self-knowledge thus engendering the mechanism of self-monitoring.
ISSN:0883-0355
1873-538X
DOI:10.1016/j.ijer.2024.102324