Effective or affective schools? Technological and emotional discourses of educational change

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ID2921063
AutoresBonny Williamson (0000-0001-9356-3213, University of Exeter, autor de correspondencia), Ben Williamson
Año2012
Volumen33
Número3
Páginas425-441
Fecha de publicación2012-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596306.2012.681901
OpenAlexW2078686623
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas26

British schools have been positioned by recent educational policy discourses as sites of innovation and transformation in new technological contexts, but more recent concerns about well-being suggest a more 'affective turn' in educational policy-making. This article provides an analysis of a project which has explored the ways in which schools are being re-imagined as spaces of effective technology-centredness, as well as sites for more emotional or affective child-centredness. I argue that far from being mutually exclusive categories, these technology-centred and child-centred orientations are conjoined in what I call 'high-touch-tech' discourse where the effective and the affective are mutually constitutive. Finally, I situate these changes as consequent upon 'emotion management' in work and social life, and suggest that an implication of the new policy focus on well-being for schools will be their requirement to perform 'affect management'. Keywords: technologymediaemotionaffecthigh-techhigh-touch Acknowledgements This article is based on research collaboration with John Morgan at the University of Bristol and Sarah Payton at Futurelab. It was funded by Microsoft Partners in Learning

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