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

• Published in: International journal of educational research Vol. 125; p. 102324
• Main Authors: Chiang, Tien-Hui, Achaa, Lydia Osarfo, Ball, Stephen J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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
• ISSN: 0883-0355; 1873-538X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2024.102324

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...