Consultants of conduct

New actors, new knowledges and new ‘resilient’ subjectivities in the governing of the teacher

Bibliographic Data

ID10106005
AuthorsPatrick L J Bailey (0000-0002-4045-7705, University of London, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume47
Issue3
Pages232-250
Publication date2015-05-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Educational Administration & History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0620 • E-ISSN: 1478-7431
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00220620.2015.1038696
OpenAlexW1877559004
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited49

This article explores the administration of the teacher and teacher education from a critical governmentality perspective. It explores some of the current authorities and knowledges implicated in the governing of teachers, and how these characterise, connect to and operationalise a neo-liberal modality of government. A case study of the influential, school-based provider of teacher education in England, Teach First, is drawn upon in order to investigate some of these relations of power as can be observed in a particular policy site and governmental encounter. In particular, the article investigates and critiques the increasingly popular (managerial) discourse of resilience inscribed into the Teach First competencies and values. Resilience informs one of the pedagogical ends of the organisation's Leadership Development Programme, within which it is traded and exchanged as an approved capability. The article considers some of the wider implications of this discourse for the changing nature and value of knowledge in education, and in imagining and realising a more equitable present and future

Critical discourse analysis · Government (linguistics · Governmentality · Ideology · Neoliberalism (international relations · Pedagogy · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Psychological resilience · Public relations · Resilience (materials science · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

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