Counteracting performativity in schools
The case for laughter as a qualitative and redemptive indicator
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20504393 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen Johnson (0000-0003-3630-9301), Helen Armstead Johnson (University of Roehampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 81-96 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Children s Spirituality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-436X • E-ISSN: 1469-8455 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13644360500039857 |
| OpenAlex | W2022508277 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
The auditing culture and its concomitant, ‘performativity’, have been at the core of the on‐going public sector reforms of the last twenty‐five years or so. The advantages and limitations of performance indicators as a managerial technique of control have long been known. Considered from an organisational, social and political perspective, it is now possible to evaluate the predictions made in the 1980s and 1990s. These focused on the consequences for the cultures of educational institutions and the emotional resilience of individuals – especially the children – within them, if techniques of this kind are inappropriately managed and emphasise the impersonal and quantitative. The article offers a compromise solution that balances effectiveness with humanity and spirituality, in the form of a radical performance indicator, namely, laughter
Aesthetics · Audit · Compromise · Economics · Environmental ethics · Humanity · Laughter · Management · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Spirituality · Education Practices and Challenges · Educational and Social Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |