The pedagogy of love

A register of precarised English teachers in Chile

Bibliographic Data

ID4179909
AuthorsRommy Anabalon Schaaf (0000-0001-9806-8393, University College London , London , UK, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume2022
Issue276
Pages15-39
Publication date2022-07-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ijsl-2021-0095
OpenAlexW4285036986
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited21

In this contribution, I will look at the imbrication of language, labour and affective capitalism in the exemplary context of a Chilean private university, as part of a larger sociolinguistic ethnography project that seeks to examine processes of precarisation in university teachers. I argue that the affective-discursive practices used by three English Language teachers, which they called the pedagogy of love, constitute a register. This register is one of the many available to women and men, which they can manage, negotiate, manipulate and capitalise on. I show in this article the way teachers enact, align with and detach from the register to make sense of their professional identities and navigate a precarious higher education market, and how the university benefits from it to regulate teachers' labour and students' expectations and eventually, obtain financial stability

Capitalism · English language · Ethnography · Job market · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Negotiation · Pedagogy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology

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