Risky Choices – Autonomy and Surveillance in Secondary English Classrooms
Achievement data from New Zealand secondary schools suggest that students from lower socio-economic communities have fewer opportunities to engage with complex content in subject English. This article examines this phenomenon by drawing on Foucault’s notion of governmentality and considers how a co...
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| Language: | English |
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Tuwhera Open Access Publisher
2023-12-01
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| Series: | New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work |
| Online Access: | https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/teachers-work/article/view/615 |
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| Summary: | Achievement data from New Zealand secondary schools suggest that students from lower socio-economic communities have fewer opportunities to engage with complex content in subject English. This article examines this phenomenon by drawing on Foucault’s notion of governmentality and considers how a context of simultaneously increased autonomy and surveillance may shape curriculum and assessment choices. To explore these ideas, I use interview data from ten secondary English teachers in the wider Auckland region. I complement Foucault’s (1982) explanation of governmentality with Ball, Maguire, and Braun’s (2012) notion of policy enactment to explore spaces of both compliance and resistance.
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| ISSN: | 1176-6662 |