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The Reproduction of Neoliberal Governmentality in Principal and Teacher Subjectivities

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ID2257809
AuthorsBryan J Duarte (0000-0003-4414-8982, Educational Leadership Miami University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume52
Issue3
Pages274-293
Publication date2021-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology & Education Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0161-7761 • E-ISSN: 1548-1492
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/aeq.12368
OpenAlexW3154921693
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited67

In the voyage to increase student achievement, centralized education agencies apply pressure to school principals and teachers in ways that transform their work. This critical ethnographic study of a historically underperforming public elementary school serving predominantly Latinx/a/o students in Texas utilized poststructural theories of subjectivity to demonstrate how the political system of educational policy governs, in plural and contradictory ways, a principal and her teachers in a school serving marginalized youth. The results expose the ways in which neoliberal power is reproduced through the participants who questioned and subtly resisted the practices that they implemented to improve student achievement. The study has implications for both practitioners and researchers to come together in order to reconcile the difficult subjectivities that participants exhibited while they implemented neoliberal policies

Epistemology · Ethnography · Governmentality · Pedagogy · Plural · Political science · Politics · Power structure · Reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

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Unique citing works3
Citations per year0,75
Citation span2022 - 2025 (4)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 3

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