Technologies of the self and narrating an ethical teacher identity, or how to tell stories of a life well lived
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12213636 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clare Woolhouse (0000-0002-2648-9997, Edge Hill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1511-1527 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-8398 • E-ISSN: 1366-5898 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09518398.2023.2181453 |
| OpenAlex | W4322008299 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 43 |
I consider how teachers discursively instantiate their identities through narrative work, which I frame using the metaphor of weaving a tapestry of the self, and drawing together a conceptualisation of technologies of the self with ideas around performativity, agency and psycho-technologies. I have included data from my analysis of sixteen life history narrative interviews conducted in North West England with teachers at different stages of their careers. My analysis contributes to the burgeoning area of international research which has indicated the need to better understand teachers’ sense of self, and intercedes with a unique insight into re-conceptualising identity development as discursive and performative. Three key aspects are addressed: how technologies of the self are instantiated via construction of the teaching self; how this self is performed as ethical with reference to normalised educational values; and how risk to this performance is “repaired”
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Epistemology · Identity (music · Literature · Metaphor · Narrative · Narrative inquiry · Pedagogy · Performative utterance · Performativity · Psychology of self · Realism · Self · Social science · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Psychology · Social Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Practicing Dialogical Narrative Analysis
The effects of working conditions on teacher retention
Neo-liberal discourse in the Academy
Discipline and Punish
Inventing our Selves
Feminism/Postmodernism
Critical Counter-Narrative as Transformative Methodology for Educational Equity
The Subject and Power
Undoing Gender
Using Narrative Inquiry as a Research Method
Archaeology of Knowledge
Collaborative research as community learning in a higher education context, or ‘what would Rod Stewart do?’
Education, neoliberalism, and ‘truths’
Teacher-entrepreneurialism
Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities
Multimodal life history narrative
Neoliberalism and education
Student identity construction in online teacher education
Changes over time in teachers’ interpersonal role identity
An ethical analysis of native-speaking English teachers’ identity construction in a mainland China university
The salience of gender during the transition to higher education
Performative technologies and teacher subjectivities
The Ethico‐politics of Teacher Identity
Interpreting Qualitative Data
Bodies that matter
Translating policy
Teacher Agency and Resilience in the Age of Neoliberalism
Governing the Soul - a Quarter of a Century On
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |