Primary Teachers, Inspection and the Silencing of the Ethic of Care

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av James Reid, UK) Reid, James (University of Huddersfield

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This book offers a unique and critical explication of teachers' understanding and experience of care during a period of regulatory scrutiny and 'notice to improve'. Written followingresearch in a primary school in the north of England, it draws on the findingsof an institutional ethnography to reveal the institutional mediation ofthe teachers' everyday work. Written from a critical interpretivist standpoint,the focus moves away from care as essentialist practice by foregrounding theteachers' talk, through 'I' poems, to explicate the political mediation ofcare. Care is understood,experienced and operates in a social milieu. It is not fixed and, importantly, isnot understood as a practice or an emotional exchange between one person and another. In this book, Joan Tronto's (1993) argument for a 'political ethic of care' isutilised as a conceptual framework for understanding teachers' experiences.It is an alternative to approaches that individualise a teacher's caringpractices as only belonging in the intimate, proximal domains of care givingand care receiving.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-09-17
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt385 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor184
FörlagEmerald Publishing Limited
ISBN9781787568921

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James Reid is a Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies at the University ofHuddersfield, UK. Prior to beginning his academic career at Teesside Universityteaching social work, James was a social work manager and then a staffdevelopment officer at a local authority. He has published extensively on localauthorities and the safeguarding of children and topics related to childhoodand education. This includes an interest in professionalism and how work withchildren and young people is shaped by policy. He was awarded the OutstandingPaper award in the 2017 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. He isthe co-editor of Perspectives on and from Institutional Ethnography (Emerald Publishing, 2017).

Chapter 1: Developing Understanding of Teachers' EverydayWork During a Period of Inspection Chapter 2: The Story Being Told Chapter 3: Care is Political: Situatingthe 'Ethic of Care' in a Conceptual Framework Chapter 4: Politics First: IdeologicalAbstraction, Assessing Pupils' Progress and Blame Chapter 5: Personal and ProfessionalMoral Boundaries, Asymmetry and Categorisation Chapter 6: Silencing Care: AchievingFidelity to Regulatory Demands Chapter 7: Teachers' Experience andUnderstanding of Care

The author uses the example of a primary school in England during an inspection to understand teachers' experiences of the inspection process and the "notice to improve," how inspectors' reports of a specific school reflect wider national and global policy, and the dilemmas teachers identify when working within a performative framework. He explores how care involves relationships and political aspects and how teachers practices of care are coordinated and mediated through institutional relations that involve policies, guidance, and wider regulatory texts used within a performative agenda for schools. He focuses on teachers' experiences and understanding of care during this period of requiring improvement and discusses the concept of care and how it is understood within a political ethic, the ideological and political abstractions within wider children and families' policy that mediates and directs teachers' work through regulatory texts, the role of personal and professional moral boundaries in terms of teaching as a caring practice that focuses on educating the whole child and caring for the requirements of government and its regulatory agents, conflicts arising in teachers' talk and the organization of practices of care through inspectors’ reports, and teachers’ experience and understanding of care.